Faculty of Science

Objectives

To highlight the aspects of physics that are important in biological processes and measurements.

Contents

Mechanics of particles, Momentum, energy and the associated conservation laws, Fluid mechanics, molecular motion diffusion and osmosis, Elementary thermodynamics, Acoustic waves and hearing, Electricity and magnetism, Basic interactions between particles, DC current. Magnetic fields, AC currents, Optical systems and vision, Quantum nature of radiation, Radioactivity, Applications of radiations in Biological systems and radiation damages.