PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE AND GOODS

Course objectives

In consistency with the educational purposes of the whole teaching course, aim of the teaching unit is to give students a basic knowledge and comprehension skills in the field of PHYSICS APPLIED TO CULTURAL HERITAGE, with the help of advanced textbooks. Moreover, it will make the student able to apply the acquired knowledge in an expert and reflective way, making autonomous judgments, communicating ideas, problems and reflections in a clear and correct way, and developing the knowledge required to go further in the studies.

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FEDERICO BORDI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Statistical methods for data analysis. Dating methods: Radio Carbon, Luminescence, Paramagnetic Spin Resonance Selected spectroscopic methods applied to material characterization in Archeology and conservation of Cultural Heritage
Prerequisites
high school physics and mathematics
Books
not pertinent
Frequency
elective
Exam mode
oral exam; partial written exams (2 or 3) could be held at different times during the course, passing two partial exams is equivalent to passing the general exam
Bibliography
R.D. Drennan “Statistics for Archaeologists” (2009) Springer, NY Stanton A. Glantz "Primer of Biostatistics" (2012) The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc J.E. Freund “Introduction to Probability” (1993) Dover, NY E.B. Banning “The Archaeologist’s laboratory” (2000) Kluwer, NY M. Walker “Quaternary Dating Methods” (2005) John Wiley & Sons Ltd. England Halliday & Resnick "Fundamentals of Physics" (2007) John Wiley & Sons Ltd. England C.Christodoulides and G.Christodoulides "Analysis and Presentation of Experimental Results" (2017) Springer, NY John R. Taylor "AN INTRODUCTION TO Error Analysis" (1997) University Science Books, CA G.Artioli "SCIENTIFIC METHODS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE - An introduction to the application of materials science to archaeometry and conservation science" (2010) Oxford Univ. Press
Lesson mode
lectures
FEDERICO BORDI Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Statistical methods for data analysis. Dating methods: Radio Carbon, Luminescence, Paramagnetic Spin Resonance Selected spectroscopic methods applied to material characterization in Archeology and conservation of Cultural Heritage
Prerequisites
high school physics and mathematics
Books
not pertinent
Frequency
elective
Exam mode
oral exam; partial written exams (2 or 3) could be held at different times during the course, passing two partial exams is equivalent to passing the general exam
Bibliography
R.D. Drennan “Statistics for Archaeologists” (2009) Springer, NY Stanton A. Glantz "Primer of Biostatistics" (2012) The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc J.E. Freund “Introduction to Probability” (1993) Dover, NY E.B. Banning “The Archaeologist’s laboratory” (2000) Kluwer, NY M. Walker “Quaternary Dating Methods” (2005) John Wiley & Sons Ltd. England Halliday & Resnick "Fundamentals of Physics" (2007) John Wiley & Sons Ltd. England C.Christodoulides and G.Christodoulides "Analysis and Presentation of Experimental Results" (2017) Springer, NY John R. Taylor "AN INTRODUCTION TO Error Analysis" (1997) University Science Books, CA G.Artioli "SCIENTIFIC METHODS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE - An introduction to the application of materials science to archaeometry and conservation science" (2010) Oxford Univ. Press
Lesson mode
lectures
  • Lesson code10589898
  • Academic year2025/2026
  • CourseArchaeological Sciences
  • CurriculumArcheologia orientale
  • Year3rd year
  • Duration12 months
  • SSDFIS/03
  • CFU6