1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

an awareness of the types and nature of environmental
hazards prevailing in particular work situations;
an understanding of the specific effects these effects have
on the human body;
an acquaintance with the legal requirements on
employers to ensure safe working conditions;
an acquaintance with relevant government authority
regularions;
an understanding of the principles of safe working
practice and the rationale of safety codes.
Content
Environmental hazards accident prevention. Work-related
injuries;
Noise and vibration;
Heat and ventilation. Measurement of dusts and fumes;
Radiation ionising and non-ionising;
Electrical power and electrical appliances;
Toxic substances: mechanisms of action and pathogenic
effects;
Routes of ingestion of toxic substances;
Evaluation and control measures;
Safety technology:
Machine safety. Hazard identification;
Fire and explosion;
Chemical safety. Handling, hazard identification.
Recommended reading
Mathews. I., Health and Sah at Work. 2nd edn. Leichart, NSW,
Pluto 199;
Harrington, J.M., & Gill, F.S., Occuptwnal Health, Oxford,
Blackwell, 1983
SP5609 Physics 5-6
13 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: SP3409 Corequisites: Assessment:
examinations, practical report and assignment
A final year subject in the Bachelor of Applied science
(Medical Biophysics and Instrumentation)
Objedive
To introduce a number of special topics, both theoretical
u, and experimental, of relevance to the student's major
6 studies.
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Content
Solid State Devices: Extrinsic semiconductors, PN junctions,
tunnel diodes. Semiconductor detectors for protons, alpha
particles and gamma rays.
Superconductivity: Basic phenomena, London equations,
non-local electrodynamics. BCS theory. Flux quantisation,
Josephson effects, and SQUIDS.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Nuclear spin and nuclear
magnetic resonance. Classical description, rotating frame
and exciting field. NMR experiments. Chemical shifts and
level splitting. NMR imagine.
Non-Linear Dynamical Systems: Linear and non-linear
dynamical systems. Geometrical description of dparnical
system behaviour. Auronomous and driven systems.
Poincare sections and return maps. Point attractors and limit
cycles. Strange attractors and chaos. Fractals. Chaos in
experimental and numerical systems.
Recommended reading:
Kittel. C., Introduction to Solid State Pbvsics, 5th edn, Tohn Wiley
8r sods, i976
Lerski, R.A., (ed), Physical Principles and Clinical Applications of
NMR. 1985
~ho&son, J.M.T. and Stewan, H.B., Nonlinear Dynamics and
Chaos, John Wiley and Sons, 1986
Baker, G.L. and Gollub, J.P., Chaotic Dynamics, An Introduction,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990
Moon, F.C., Chaotic and Fractal Dynamics, John Wiley and Sons,
1992
SQ300 Data Structures and Algorithms
10 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite SQlOO Programming in Ada Instruction:
lecture and tutorials Assessment: assignments and
examination
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Computer Science and Software Engineering).
Objectives
To achieve good programming (correctness, flexibility,
adaptability, portability, utility and clarity) through
understanding and use of the concepts of modularity and
abstract data types.
Content
Common data structures, associated algorithms and
applications; stacks, queues, trees, binary search trees,
balancing; heaps, sets; graphs; hash tables; Ada generics.
Recommended Reading
Stubbs, D.F. and Webre, N.W. Data Structures with Abstract Data
Types and ADA, Boston, PWS-Kent, 1993
SQ305 Database
10 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: SQl2O or SQ2lO or SQlOO Instruction:
lectures and laboratory sessions Assessment: assignments
and final examination
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
Objectives
To supply the practical skills and knowledge to design most
databases used in industry; to provide the foundation to
evaluate existing database management systems; to teach
proficiency in SQL.
Content
The theory and process of database design, including
database architecture; database architecture; data modelling;
relational theory; logical and physical design; relational,
network, hierarchical and object oriented databases; SQL.