Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives As for PHS2022 or PHS2322.
Synopsis This subject consists of two units from either PHS2022 or PHS2322 to allow students to study the maximum physics and applied physics material in second semester. The two units are chosen either from `Quantum physics', `Atomic and nuclear physics' and `Thermodynamics', or from `Instrumentation applications', `Telecommunication physics' and `Acoustics'. Students who have the necessary prerequisites may take any two units from PHS2022 and PHS2322 as a terminal subject. Students who have completed PHS1031 and PHS1042 and wish to continue studies in biophysics may take the following two units. (1) Instrumentation for the life sciences: System description in terms of excitation, transfer function and output response; filtering operations to attenuate noise and enhance and extract the desired signal; specific measurement systems relevant to biophysics including the measurement of temperature, pressure, volume, flow, electrical activity; data analysis including statistical analysis, time, frequency and amplitude domain representations, correlations and convolutions. (2) Scientific visualisation: Visual image formation, introductory optics and the principles of lens systems; vision and perception, introduction to optical instruments; imaging of living systems, optical imaging, x-ray imaging, ultrasonic imaging; simple image processing as applied to biological systems, segmentation and feature extraction.
Assessment Examinations (2 x 1.5 hours): 67% + Laboratory work: 33%