PHY100 Medical Radiation Physics (16)
Abstract
This full year subject provides essential physics within the context of Medical Radiation Science. It provides a basic knowledge and understanding of a wide range of topics from important physical laws and concepts relevant to medical imaging and nuclear medicine. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
Session 1 | Internal | Port Macquarie | Internal | Wagga Wagga Campus | Distance | Wagga Wagga Campus | Session 2 | Internal | Port Macquarie | Internal | Wagga Wagga Campus | Distance | Wagga Wagga Campus |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: PHY100
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject informationDuration | Grading System | School: |
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Two sessions | HD/FL | School of Dentistry and Health Sciences |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- Be able to outline the principles of and perform calculations in kinematics, dynamics, elasticity and fluids.
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding and solve problems in thermal physics, electricity and magnetism
- Be able to describe and perform calculations in atomic physics and electromagnetic radiation
- Be able to explain and perform calculations in AC electricity, semiconductors and solid state devices
- Be able to demonstrate comprehension and perform calculations involving both radiation production and interaction, and the associated radiological quantities
- Be able to compute and solve problems of a conceptual and quantitative nature in the above areas of medical radiation physics
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- Session 1
- General Physics
- Internal Energy, Temperature, Heat.
- Electrostatics, Electric Charge and Potential
- Conduction and Storage of Charge
- Electricity
- Magnetism and Electromagnetism
- Alternating current
- Review
- Session 2
- Atomic Structure
- Solid State Devices
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Light
- X-rays
- X-rays and gamma ray interaction with matter
- X-rays and gamma ray interaction with tissue
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.