PHSI 191 SS: Biological Physics, Summer School

Semester: Summer School 

Overview

Foundations of physics for the health sciences including mechanics, properties of fluids and solids, thermodynamics, optics, electrostatics and DC circuits, and radiation and health.

The Summer School paper is intended for students who have passed their laboratory component in the Semester One PHSI191 course but failed the paper overall.  This paper will be similar to PHSI 191, although there will be no laboratory component, and it will have significantly more tutorial-style contact. The laboratory component of the student's internal assessment in the first semester paper will be carried over to the summer paper.   Enrolments will be opened by the end of August 2011.

The Blackboard web page is used to make announcements - it is a good idea to check it regularly.

For more information on the Summer School, see the University's main page here.

Prerequisites

Students should have passed at least five out of the six laboratories in PHSI 191 in the previous year.   Students who have not met this requirement may seek special permission to enter.

Textbook

Introduction to Biological Physics for the Health and Life Sciences, Franklin, Muir et al. (Wiley, 2010).