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PHYS 491Special Topics in Life, Medical and Biophysics

Faculty
Science
Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024 and last ran in Fall 2023. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. F20
  2. F21
  3. F22
  4. F23

Ran in 4 terms, Fall 2020 to Fall 2023.

A lecture and project course offered in areas of life, medical and biophysics, which will add to the learning experience of the students in these plans at a fourth-year level. Lecture topics may include advanced topics in molecular and cellular biophysics, imaging, biophotonics, interaction of radiation with biomaterials, radiation dosimetry and other physics based diagnostics and therapeutics. Projects may include studies of recent advances in any areas of medical and biophysics. [Offered: F]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: Level at least 4A; one of PHYS 380, 383, 395, 396

Reviewed on UW Flow

67% liked it88% easy50% useful

From 3 ratings and 2 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Took it with Dr. Ha. The entire course only requires you to do two presentations on a biophysics topic of your interest. And the term is pretty much just all presentations. Very light workload overall, and you get to learn some interesting stuff. Would recommend to anyone who needs a relatively light course

    Nov 2022 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • One of the most useful, shite courses you can take in Life Physics.
    Taken with QBL, you will learn only about his research, write a paper on his research, talk about his research, and then maybe learn about 1 or 2 other things you'll cover in 383 or 483 lol.

    May 2021 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

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5 posts and comments in 5 threads mention PHYS 491, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

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