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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

8142 (v.4) Physics 201

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Applied Physics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
    OR
    307536 (v.4) Engineering Mathematics 120 or any previous version
    OR
    307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
    OR
    307535 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
    OR
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
AND
302804 (v.3) Physics 101 or any previous version
AND
305415 (v.3) Physics 102 or any previous version
Syllabus: Electricity and magnetism: electric potential, magnetic fields, Ampere's law, Faraday's law and Lenz's law. Nuclear structure. Radioactivity. Interaction with matter. X-rays. Neutrons. Particle accelerators. Detection methods. Radiation dosimetry.
Field of Education: 010301 Physics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External