BIOP2202 Biomeasurement [UG]

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Credit: 6 points Availability: Semester 2 (See Timetable) Old unit code: 563.202

Content: This unit comprises the following topics: sensing—the physics of the eye, vision, colour, the ear, acoustics, ultrasound, sonar and neural processes; imaging—electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, X-ray diffraction, ultrasound, 3D transforms, and MRI; transducers—instrumentation and the measurement of bio-electricity and bio-impedance, EEG, ECG, fourier analysis, extracting, amplifying and filtering of a signal.

Assessment: This comprises laboratory work (20 per cent), and examinations and assignments (80 per cent).

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course.

Unit Co-ordinator(s): Dr Ralph James

Location: UWA (Crawley)

Mode: on-campus

Unit Rules:

Prerequisites: PHYS1101 Advanced Physics A and PHYS1102 Advanced Physics B, or PHYS1141 General Physics A and PHYS1142 General Physics B; TEE Applicable Mathematics or MATH1050 Calculus C

Contact hours—lectures: 3 hrs per week; tutorials: 1 hr per week; labs: 4 hrs per week (for 6 weeks)

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