1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Amplifiers, input impedance, output impedance, loads,
operational amplifiers, the ideal operational amplifier, the
inverting configuration, the non-inverting amplifier, the
differential amplifier. Semiconductor devices and circuits, P
and N type semiconductor, the PN junction, the NPN
transistor, the JFET.
Logic gates, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, the RS flipflop,
monostable and astable devices, RS and D latches, edgetriggering
and master-slave flip-flops.
Recommended reading
Floyd, T.C., Electronic Devices, 2nd edn, Merrill, Columbus
SP555 Introduction to Biophysical
Systems
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: Must satisfv course entry requirements
Corequisites: Nil Assessment: Examination and
Laboratory work
A subject in the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science
(Biomedical Instrumentation) and the Master of Engineering
by coursework (Biomedical Engineering)
Objectives
To introduce students with an existing background in
the physical sciences to physical aspects of biological
systems.
Content
Cell physiology Structure and function of the cell and subcellular
organelles. Physical state of cell water. The
membrane concept.
Membranes and Excitability Electrochemical potential,
Nernst and Donnan equilibrium. Hodgkin-Huxley
equations; impulse propagation; electronic spread.
Nerves and Muscles Synaptic transmission; energy
transduction by receptors; the contraction mechanism;
excitation-contraction coupling.
Bioenergetic Nature of energy flow in living systems.
Energetics of biochemical processes: e.g. oxidative
phosphorylation, Krebs cycle, glycolysis, cytochrome chain,
photosynthesis, protein synthesis. Quantitative
measurement.
Flow and Pressure Nature of flow and pressure in biological
fluids: blood, c.s.f., respiratory gases, lymph, renal
ultrafiltrate. Bernoulli and Navier-Stokes equations.
Viscosity. Fluid impedance and impedance of branching
networks.
Control Systems Control engineering concepts. The nature
and features of biological control mechanisms
Recommended reading
Guyton A.C., Textbook of Medical Physiology, Philadelphia, W.B.
Saunders, 1991
Plonsey R.and Barr R.C., Bioelectric Phenomena, New York,
Plenum, 1988
SP563 Biophysics of Exercise
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: SPS5.5 or equivalent ; Nil (GDip/Master of
App,Sci (Biomedical Instrumentation) Corequisites: Nil
Assessment: Examination and Assignment
A subject in the Graduate Diploma/Master of Applied
Science (Biomedical Instrumentation) and Master of
Engineering by coursework (Biomedical Engineering)
Objectives
To study the physiological bases and instrumentation
principles involved in human exercise and sports.
Content
Theoretical basis of oxygen consumption measurement.
Cardiac output determination by re-breathing techniques.
Clinical exercise testing. Gas analysers and sampling systems
problems. Volume meters and timing devices. Computer
facilities. Ergometry and work power and Assessment:.
Clinical aspects.
Recommended reading
Astrand, P.O. and Rodahl, K., Textbook of Work Physiolgy, 3rd
edn, New York, McGraw Hill, 1986
SP601 Stand Alone Instrumentation
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisites:
Corequisites: Nil Assessment: reports
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Computing and Instrumentation)
Objectives
To introduce students to the embedded system
programming.
Content
The Forth language and the design of time critical turn key
instrument systems. Implementing a program in Forth
incremental compilation, stack maintenance, multiple
vocabularies, interrupts, multi-tasking, special features of the
language. Optimised target compilation.
Recommended reading
Hendtlass, T., Real Time Forth, Mountain View Press, 1994
SP602 Special Project
4 credit points 2 hoursper week Hawthorn Corequisites:
Nil Assessment: reports
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
Content
This project gives students training in carrying out a
technical investigation.
Students work individually, or in small groups, under staff
supervision, on a major investigation project chosen from
some area of biomedical instrumentation.
Projects are chosen by students, after consultation with staff,
from a list developed by staff. Projects are usually associated
with departmental research interests, or are proposed by
cooperative employers, but can be suggested by students.