100111140 MEDICAL PHYSICS ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

Static forces, stability of the human body, muscles, and levers. Elasticity and strength of materials, tension and compression. Pressure, pascal’s principle, hydrostatic skeleton, Archimedes’ principle, and surface tension. Fluid dynamics, Bernoulli’s equation, viscosity, Poiseuille’s law, blood circulation, laminar and turbulent flow and arteriosclerosis. Heat and temperature, transfer of heat, di?usion through membranes, the respiratory system, regulation of body temperature. Waves, sound, hearing and the ear, and ultrasonic waves. Electricity, the nervous system, the neuron, axons, action potentials, and the electrocardiograph. Light, vision, structure and resolving power of the eye, telescopes, microscopes, and fiber optics. The atom, electron microscope, x-rays, x-ray computerized tomography, lasers, the nucleus and MRI.