1997 QUT Handbook

simple applications. A series of laboratory experiments emphasises
the above concepts.
Courses: SC15
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB001 INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS
This unit is designed for students without a SA or better in
Senior Physics (or equivalent). Topics include: kinematics,
mechanics, electricity and magnetism.
Courses: SC30, ED50, ME35
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: SA or better in Senior Physics
■ PHB111 PHYSICS 1B
A course of lectures and laboratory work on AC and DC circuit
theory, electronics, vibrations and waves, sound, geometrical
optics.
Courses: PH38 Prerequisites: SA – Senior Physics
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB122 PHYSICS 1
A course of lectures and laboratory work on data analysis,
kinematics and mechanics, DC and AC circuit theory, electronics,
vibrations and waves, sound, geometrical optics and
physical optics.
Courses: CH32, ED50, OP42, SC30
Prerequisites: SA Senior Physics
Corequisites: PHB001 unless Senior Physics has been passed
at SA or better
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ PHB134 ENGINEERING PHYSICS 1B
A basic unit in the physics of waves and optics: moving and
stationary waves in various media, interference of waves,
beat acoustics and shock waves and measurement of sound;
geometrical and physical optics including reflection, refraction,
dispersion, interference and diffraction, polarisation,
optical instruments, design and resolution, and photometry.
Courses: CE42, EE43, EE44, IF23, IF54, IF56, ME23, ME45,
ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB150 PHYSICS 1H
Basic physical measurements, mechanics, heat, waves, acoustics,
ultrasonics and optics, and the instrumentation used to
measure biological parameters.
Courses: PU42, PU44, PU45, SC30, LS37, ED50
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PHB172 PHYSICS FOR SURVEYORS
Physics relating to modern surveying instrumentation; optics,
physics of materials, physics of the atmosphere, electromagnetic
and ultrasonic wave applications, topics in electronics.
Courses: IF54, IF55, PS47 , PS48
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB178 PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL
RADIATIONS
Principles of medical imaging and methods of detection, diagnosis
and treatment of cancer.
Courses: PH38
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PHB222 PHYSICS 2
A course of lectures and laboratory work on mechanical properties
of matter, fluids, gravitational fields, electromagnetic
fields, thermal physics, quantum and radiation physics.
Courses: ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: SA – Senior Physics
Corequisites: PHB001 unless Senior Physics has been passed
at SA or better
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ PHB234 ENGINEERING PHYSICS 2B
The physics of heat and properties of matter, including the
kinetic theory of gases, temperature scales and thermometers,
heat and heat transfer, thermodynamics and the molecular
properties of matter, electric charge and electric fields,
Gauss’s Law, electric potential, capacitance, magnetism and
magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, inductance.
Courses: EE43, EE44, IF23
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB240 OPTICS 2
The principles of geometrical optics as they apply to rectilinear
propagation, reflection and refraction for paraxial rays for
monochromatic light for single surfaces, thin lenses, cylindrical,
sphero-cylindrical and toric lenses, lens systems in air,
the eye and a selection of optical instruments; study of the
optics of mono-chromatic and chromatic aberrations and of
photometry and colour.
Courses: OP42 Prerequisites: PHB122
Corequisites: OPB132
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 7 per week
■ PHB263 PHYSICS 2E
Extension of PHB150 including fluids, AC, DC circuit theory,
with emphasis on electronics and instrumentation, fields, modern
and nuclear physics. Fluid mechanics. Biomechanics.
Courses: ED50, PU42, PU44, SC30
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PHB272 RADIATION PHYSICS 1
Electrostatics, electromagnetism, the production of X-rays and
their interaction with matter.
Courses: PH38
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ PHB275 PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
A study of the processes involved in the production of a visible
image in radiography, including: latent image formation,
processing, techniques and equipment relevant to radiography.
Courses: PH38
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ PHB276 GENERAL RADIOGRAPHY 1
A program of lectures relating to radiography of the skeletal
system.
Courses: PH38 Prerequisites: LSB141, PHB178
Corequisites: LSB241, PHB278
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PHB278 GENERAL RADIOGRAPHY PRACTICE 1
A program of practical sessions relating to radiography of the
skeletal system.
Courses: PH38
Corequisites: PHB276
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB286 TREATMENT PLANNING 1
Introduction to the techniques of radiotherapy treatment planning.
Courses: PH38 Prerequisites: PHB170
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 6 per week
■ PHB287 MEGAVOLTAGE THERAPY 1
Introduction to the basic techniques of radiotherapy including
beam direction and defining devices.
Courses: PH38 Prerequisites: PHB178
Corequisites: LSB241
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ PHB313 RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE
INTERPRETATION
Image formation in medical radiography, and the significance
of diagnostic techniques and their image appearances in assessment
of the lower extremity.
Courses: PU45
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PHB322 PHYSICS 3A
Laplace Transforms; SHM; damped harmonic motion; forced
oscillations; coupled oscillations; wave transmission and reflection;
wave systems; AC circuit analysis; power; network
analysis; resonance; AC measurements.
Courses: ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: MAB222, PHB122, PHB222
Corequisites: MAB432
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
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