Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

7731 (v.4) Instrumental Physics 503


Area: Department of Applied Physics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 2.0
** 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. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Experimental techniques and analytical skills: nuclear,X-ray, mass spectrometry, geophysics, electron microscopy, satellite meteorology and oceanography. For example: electron microscopy, theory, electron probe microanalyser, applications and recent advances. Mass spectrometry. Instrumentation: ion sources, magnetic analysers and detection systems. Data handling. Accuracy, systems calibration. Applications: geophysics, nuclear physics, chemistry, environmental science and archaeometry. Practical experience.
** 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. **
Field of Education: 010301 Physics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1         Y
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 2 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

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