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SP752 Advanced Instrument Electronics
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the scientific instrumentation option of the
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) program.
Subject description
Amplifiers, active filter synthesis, circuit analysis and
simulation techniques, precision measurements: noise, CMR,
shielding, designing with discrete semiconductors, power
supplies: linear and switched mode, custom and semicustom
digital and analog integrated circuits.
SP753 Optical Instrumentation
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the scientific instrumentation option of the
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) program.
Subject description
Radiometry and photometry: measurement of radiant flux
and luminous flux. Sensor technology.
Colourimetry: colour measurement, industrial applications
and standards, colour vision.
Optical instrument design: optical materials and processes,
ray tracing, aberrations, design applications.
Fibre optic techniques: fibre types, modes, resonators, losses
and sensors.
Interferometry: coherence theory, interferometry designs and
applications.
Fourier optics: image analysis and processing, modulation
transfer function calculations.
Spectrometer design: spectrometer types, construction and
performance. Theoretical analysis and comparison of designs.
Fourier techniques.
Lasers: simulated emission, radiation theory, relaxation
processes, optical resonators, gain and saturation effects.
SP754 Microcontroller Design Techniques
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: mixed lecture and laboratory work
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the scientific instrumentation option of the
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) program.
Subject description
Advanced combinatorial and sequential digital logic.
Sample single chip microcontrollers.
Microprocessors circuits for instrumentation, software
integration.
Advanced microprocessors: transputers, 68000, 80x86.
SPARC.
Advanced microprocessors: DSP - digital processing.
DSPs, PALS, silicon compilers.
sP755 Nuclear Instrumentation
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: mixed lectures and laboratory work
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the scientific instrumentation option of the
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) program.
Subject description
Industrial, medical and scientific applications of nuclear
radiation. Topics include: gamma ray spectroscopy, neutron
activation analysis (NAA), prompt gamma neutron analysis
(PGNA), neutron diffraction studies, neutron radiography,
diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radioisotopes, and
nuclear radiation detectors.
SP756 Advanced Instrumentation
6.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Assessment: assignments
A subject of the scientific instrumentation option of the
Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) program.
Subject description
Students may select one of a series of short topics. These
topics may include: advanced imaging, materials technology,
physical analysis techniques, embedded system design,
information theory or transducers and sensors.
SP822 Major Project
50.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: sixteen hours in second
semester
Assessment: report
A subject of the medical biophysics andlor scientific
instrumentation option of the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Honours) program.
Subject description
A major individual research project assessed by report.
Projects are usually associated with departmental research
interests, but can be suggested by students.
Projects require a literature survey. Results, conclusions and
recommendations are presented in a written report, and a
verbal report may also be required.
SPI 200 Physics
10.0 credit points per semester
No. of hours per week: five hours for two
semesters
Assessment: practical work, assignments and
examination
A first-year subject taken by students majoring in computing
and instrumentation.
Subject description
Motion and forces: relativistic kinematics and dynamics,
rotational kinematics and dynamics, gravitation.
Electricity and magnetism: electric fields, DC circuits,
magnetic fields, electromagnetism, AC circuits.
Atomic physics: photoelectric effect, x-rays, Compton effect,
photon-electron interactions, Bohr model, de Broglie matter
waves.
Nuclear physics: binding energy, nuclear forces, radioactivity,
alpha, beta, gamma decay, nuclear reactions, radiation
detectors.
Vibrations, waves and sound.
Optics: optical instruments, interference and diffraction,
polarization, optical communication.
Thermal physics: temperature and heat, gas laws and
thermodynamics.