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SPI 209
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 medical
biophysics 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
3 waves.
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Nuclear physics: binding energy, nuclear forces, radioactivity,
alpha, beta, gamma decay, nuclear reactions, radiation
detectors.
8 Vibrations, waves and sound.
Optics: optical instruments, interference and diffraction,
polarization, optical communication.
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Thermal physics: temperature and heat, gas laws and
thermodynamics.
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SPI 210 Introduction to Scientific
Instrumentation
10.0 credit points per semester
No. of hours per week: four hours
Instruction: lectures, laboratory work and tutorials
Assessment: examination, workshop reports and
laboratory computer testing
A first-year subject for students majoring in instrumentation.
Subject description
An introdudion to fundamentals of digital logic and
applications. Advanced digital circuits. Basic analog electronic
concepts, basic concepts of instrumentation and transducers.
AC concepts and circuits, Power supplies. Case studies in
digital and analog electronics.
Textbooks
Isrnail, Rooney and Victor, M. Digital Concepts and Applications,
Philadelphia, PA.: Saunders College Publishing, 1990.
Hazen. Mark E. Fundamentals of DC and AC circuits, Philadelphia,
P.A.: Saunders College Publishing, 1990
SPI 224 Introductory Biophysics
5.0 credit points qr semester
No. of hours per week: two hours for two
semesters
Assessment: examination, assignments and
laboratory reports
A first-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Application of physics to clinical problems.
Biomechanics: anatomy of bones, joints, spinal cord,
kinesiological measurement.
Control systems: homeostasis, feedback in biological systems,
specific application to the endocrine and reproductive
systems.
Bioenergetics: metabolic measurement, food and physical
activity, gastro-intestinal function.
SP3400 Physics 2
10.0 credit points per semester
No. of hours per week: four hours for two
semesters
Assessment: examination
A second-year subject for students majoring in computing
and instrumentation.
Subject description
Structure and properties of matter.
Classical mechanics: Newton's Laws, the two body problem,
orbital mechanici, vibrations, normal modes, resonance, rigid
body dynamics, angular momentum, inertial tensor, Euler's
equations, Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics,
introduction to statistical mechanics.
Quantum mechanics: statistical interpretation, Schroedinger's
equation - basic solutions, operators, eigenfundions and
eigenvalues. Uncertainty principle, radiation selection rules,
many body quantum mechanics, Pauli exclusion principle,
lasers and holography.
Nuclear physics: nuclear models - liquid drop model, Fermi
gas model, shell model, collective model. Nuclear decay and
nuclear reactions.
Electromagnetism: Maxwell's equations: continuity equation,
scalar and vector ootentials. macroscooic fields. oolarisation.
magnetisation, constitutive .relations. axw well's' iquations in.
'macroscopic form': dielectrics, conductors, boundary
conditions, electromagnetic waves in conducting and non-
conductinq media, reflection and transmission. cavities and
waveguid&., sources of radiation.
Optics: wave theory of light, scalar wave approximation,
Kirchoff diffraction integral. Fresnel and Fraunhoffer
diffraction patterns. Absorption, scattering and dispersion of
light. Electromagnetic waves. Selected topics from modern
optics.
Solid state physics: Sommerfield theory of electronic
behaviour in crystals. Kronig-Penny model, band theory, PN
junctions.
~~3409 Physics 3-4
10.0 credit points per semester
No. of hours per week: four hours for two
semesters
Assessment: examination
A second-year subject for students majoring in medical
biophysics and instrumentation.
Subject description
Structure and properties of matter.
Classical mechanics: Newton's Laws, the two body problem,
orbital mechanics, vibrations, normal modes, resonance, rigid
body dynamics, angular momentum, inertial tensor, Euler's
equations, Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics,
introduction to statistical mechanics.
Quantum mechanics: statistical interpretation, Schroedinger's
equation - basic solutions, operators, eigenfunctions and
eigenvalues. Uncertainty principle, radiation selection rules,
many body quantum mechanics. Pauli exclusion principle,
lasers and holography.
Nuclear physics: nuclear models - liquid drop model, Fermi
gas model, shell model, collective model. Nuclear decay and
nuclear reactions.
Electromagnetism: Maxwell's equations: continuity equation,
scalar and vector potentials, macroscopic fields, polarisation.
magnetisation, constitutive relations. Maxwell's equations in
'macroscopic form': dielectrics, conductors, boundary