Biophysics

Code:

602

Acronym:

602

Instance: 2008/2009 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.fade.up.pt/docentes/leandromachado/biofisica/
Course/CS Responsible:	Sports Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCD	8	Plano de Estudos a partir de 2008	1	-	3	-
			2
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Knowledge of the Biophysics history
-Understand the inter-relationships between the Physical and the Biological Sciences
- Understand the concept of wave and know their properties
- Understand the speech and earring mechanisms and their relation with sound waves
- To apply the concepts learned in order to understand the echography mechanism and the Doppler effect
- Understand the concept of electromagnetic wave and know their properties
- To understand the functioning of the mirrors and lenses
- To understand the vision mechanism and the correction of visual defects by the use of lenses
- To understand the concept of electrically charged particles and the existence of the electric and magnetic fields
- To understand the physical mechanism for the creation and propagation of the action potential in nervous and muscle cells and its relation to electromyography

Program

- Biophysics history: the influence of Physics in the biological knowledge; the influence of Biology in the physical knowledge
- Mathematical basis for the study of Biophysics
- The elastic spring: harmonic oscillatory movement; propagation of perturbations
- The waves: characteristics; wave equation
- Stationary waves: formation; harmonics
- Resonance and the propagation of sound waves in tubes
- The mechanisms of speech and earring
- Electromagnetic waves: the electromagnetic spectrum and its characteristics
- Lenses and mirrors: their uses and the thin lens formula
- The zoom mechanism and its use for the gathering of better images
- The human eye and the functioning of vision
- The electric charges: the concept of field and the interaction of electric charges
- The action potential in nervous and muscle cells: formation and propagation
- The electromiography

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of the matters by the professor, with exercises of application resolution, and whenever possible with practical demonstrations using elastic springs, mirrors or lenses, as adequate. Visualization and discussion of illustrative videos or simulations.

keywords

Physical sciences > Physics > Optics
Physical sciences > Physics > Biophysics
Physical sciences > Physics > Acoustics

Evaluation Type

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	25,00
Bio-acoustics test	Exame	1,00		2008-11-19
Bio-optics test	Exame	1,00		2008-12-10
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Three tests are to be made. The minimum grade in each test is 7.5 values out of 20. Having a grade less 7.5 values implies the non admission for the following test. The students that have not obtained frequency through the test and have the minimum amount of class presences, as established by law, are admitted to the final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of the 3 tests: (T1+T2+T3)/3
or
classification of the final exam

Examinations or Special Assignments

Are not considered

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Global final exam (in exam period, or not, accordingly to the law).

Classification improvement

Global final exam