Checking date: 25/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Biophysics
(19755)
Bachelor in Neuroscience (Plan: 517 - Estudio: 389)


Coordinating teacher: AUGER MARTINEZ, MARIA ANGUSTIAS

Department assigned to the subject: Physics Department

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (high-school level)
Objectives
- Ability to know and understand the basic laws and concepts of Physics, focusing on its applications to biochemistry and biology - Ability to understand the basic elements of the interaction of radiation with matter, atomic and nuclear structure essential in Medical Physics - Ability to understand and use the mathematics involved in the physical models - Ability to understand and use the scientific method - Ability to understand and use the scientific language - Ability to develop problem solving skills - Ability to use scientific instruments and analyze experimental data - Ability to retrieve and analyze information from different sources - Ability to work in a team
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Scientific method, critical attitude and importance of the representation of experimental data. Data representation and analysis. 2. Living beings as thermodynamic systems. 3. Biophysics of gases: respiration. 4. Biophysics of fluids: haemodynamics. 5. Biophysics of cell membranes. 6. Wave biophysics: hearing 7. Physical basis of vision. 8. Physical principles of diagnostic imaging.
Learning activities and methodology
In person master classes. Lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. In person practical learning sessions based on cases and and exercises resolution. Individual work. Laboratory sessions. Practical work and activities held in a Physics laboratory. Individual and collaborative work + written reports submission. Individual and/or group tutorial sessions to resolve doubts and queries about the subject. Final exam.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • P.A. Tipler, G. Mosca. PHYSICS for Scientists and Engineers. W.H. Freeman. 2007
Additional Bibliography
  • D. T. Haynie. BIOLOGICAL THERMODYNAMICS. Cambridge University Press. 2003
  • J.T. Bushberg, J.A. Seibert, E.M. Leidholdt Jr., J.M. Boone. THE ESSENTIAL PHYSICS OF MEDICAL IMAGING. Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD. 2002
  • R. Glaser. BIOPHYSICS. Springer-Verlag. 2001

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.


More information: https://www.uc3m.es/grado/media/grado/doc/archivo/doc_memoria_neuro/memoria-definitiva-neurociencia-2.pdf