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PHYS 481Biophysics of Organ Systems

Faculty
Science
Offered
Winter
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1972–73 to 1994–95 (before that, 1970–71 to 1971–72 used the number for Biophysics of Organ Systems See page 136 for general information Astrophysics Biophysics Geophysics Laser Research Low Temperature Physics Microwave Research Magnetic Resonance and Neutron Diffraction Spectroscopy); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Transplantation of organs: storage of organs at suboptimal (0 to +15°C) and subzero temperatures, theories of freezing damage (-196°C) to cells and organs, banking of tissues, blood cells and sperm at -196°C, future application. Temperature regulation, hypothermia. Physics of the cardiovascular system: hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, electrocardiograms. Anatomy and physics of respiration, gas transport and gas exchange, applications to diving.

As printed in the 1986–87 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1970–71 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1986–87 to 1994–95 9 calendars

Transplantation of organs: storage of organs at suboptimal (0 to +15°C) and subzero temperatures, theories of freezing damage (-196°C) to cells and organs, banking of tissues, blood cells and sperm at -196°C, future application. Temperature regulation, hypothermia. Physics of the cardiovascular system: hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, electrocardiograms. Anatomy and physics of respiration, gas transport and gas exchange, applications

to diving.

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.

1972–73 to 1985–86 13 calendars

Physics of homeostasis, interactions with the environment, circulation of blood, temperature regulation, respiration, transport problems and special organ systems.

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

1970–71 to 1971–72 2 calendars

Another title: Biophysics of Organ Systems See page 136 for general information Astrophysics Biophysics Geophysics Laser Research Low Temperature Physics Microwave Research Magnetic Resonance and Neutron Diffraction Spectroscopy, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

Special senses, biological transducers, information handling in the central nervous sytem, theories of muscle contraction: physics of homeostasis, interactions with the environment, circulation of blood, temperature regulation, respiration, and transport problems. Prerequisites: Physics 222*-223* and Mathematics 236 or equivalent. 3 lectures, winter term.

Graduate Studies and Research Programmes

There are at present several major areas of study in the Department in which graduate students may specialize. These include.

Stellar evolution in galactic clusters, radial velocities and spectral analysis, galactic structure.

Radiation biophysics of synchronized cell cultures. Thermodynamics of intra-cellular movement.

Physical limnology of the Great Lakes.

Solid state injection lasers, laser-produced plasmas.

Experimental studies of condensed inert gases, liquid helium, superconductivity, energy gap and Fermi surface determinations.

Dielectric constant measurements. Field induced absorptions, microwave spectometry.

Physical properties of solids, particularly ferroelectrics, are studied by these methods.

Raman and Brillouin scattering, far infra-red absorption.

378 § Physics of Lattice Defects Thin Film Physics Theoretical Physics +620 Quantum Mechanics 1 +621 Quantum Mechanics 2

Department of Physics

Layer structures, properties of vacancies and impurities.

Epitaxial, anodic oxide, and semi-conducting films, active thin film devices.

Theory of liquids, the elastic dielectric, electronic states in crystals and molecules, colour centers, phonon dispersion curves, polymers, super-conductivity, liquid helium.

Graduate Course Descriptions

All graduate courses are three lectures per week for one term. Those indicated (+) are available every year, others are given when required.

A second course in the subject involving a re-examination of the principles of wave and matrix mechanics and applications to more complicated systems. Prerequisite: Physics 434 or equivalent. Fall term.

Semi-classical treatment of radiation, Identical particles and spin. Atoms and molecules. Scattering. Dirac equation. Quantization of the electromagnetic field. Low order radiation processes. Prerequisite: Physics 620, winter term.