Biophysics

Code:

602

Acronym:

602

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	15	Licenciatura em Ciências do Desporto	1	-	3	-
			2
			3
		First Degree in Sports Sciences (2011/2012)	2	-	3	-
			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

Mandatory literature

José Enrique Rodas Durán; Biofísica – Fundamentos e aplicações, Prentice Hall, São Paulo, 2003. ISBN: 85.87918.32-X
J J PEDROSO DE LIMA; BIOFISICA MEDICA, Imprensa Universidade Coimbra, 2006
C. Gerthsen, Kneses, H. Vogel; Física, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1998. ISBN: 972-31-0705-8

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Two 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, in the "Época de Recurso".

Calculation formula of final grade

Average of the 2 tests: (T1+T2)/2
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, in the "Época de Recurso"