Course Details
Country:
New Zealand
Course Title:
Physics for Life Sciences
Course Number:
124111
Course Description:
Describing motion. Forces and torques, work and energy in biological and non-biological system. Heat energy - its production and transfer in animals. Stress, strain and the strength of biological material. Ideal Gas Law. Flow of fluids in tube. Light, sound and their biological detection. DC and AC electric circuits. Acoustics and ultrasound. Ionising radiation. Biomedical instruments. A laboratory course based on the above which includes the use of basic statistics in the interpretation of data and illustration of the scientific method.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
PHYS 243 + PHYS 244
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