Anticipated Duties and Responsibilities:
Orientation-Training
Office Hours
Preparation
Student Consultation
Lecturing
Email Correspondence/Monitoring
TA Coordination Meetings
Invigilating Exams
Grading
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This course provides an overview of topics in physics that are of particular importance to the life and biological sciences. Topics include: Vectors, Kinematics (projectile motion) Newton's Laws, friction, linear momentum Systems in equilibrium; torque Elastic properties of solids Some aspects of scaling; Work and Energy Rotation: Kinematics, energy, angular momentum. Fluid Statics: pressure, surface tension, buoyancy (Archimedes' Principle); Fluids in Motion: Continuity, Bernoulli's Equation, viscosity, Poiseuille's Law, Streamline and Turbulent Flow, Reynold's Number; applications to blood circulation, aneurysms; Sedimentation on fluids, the centrifuge, Diffusion in fluids; Pressure and particle density in an isothermal atmosphere; related systems (eg Perrin's experiment). Osmotic pressure; isotonic, hypertonic and hypotonic solutions. Some aspects of Heat: specific heat, latent heats, heat transport by conduction, convection and radiation. THIS COURSE IS TEAM TAUGHT, and has technical, clerical and GTA support.