CCMAS Course Search

Binary and ternary equilibrium diagrams and applications in metallurgy; theory of alloy, solidification of metals and alloys; introduction to heat treatment of metals including normalising, tempering, quenching, annealing and case hardening of metals; phase transformation, iron-carbon diagram and TTT diagram; theory of recrystallisation, nucleation and growth of crystal.

Principles of wave optics, interferences, diffraction, polarization, radiometry, holography, quantum nature of light, spectroscopy, lasers. Relativistic optics. Laboratory work is included.

Principles of CT : X ray projection, attenuation and acquisition of transmission profiles. The linear attenuation coefficient , the density of the material and the photon energy, beer’s law, Hounsfield units, Gantry and table , X-ray tube and generator, collimation and filtration, detectors, image reconstruction and processing. Basic physics of ultrasound: The nature of sound waves and characteristics of ultrasound, propagation in tissues, piezoelectricity, transducers and beam shapes. Doppler ultrasound physics. Components of A, B, M mode and real-time scanners, measurement of size, scan converters and processing. Pulsed and continuous wave Doppler measurements and Imaging, duplex scanners, 2D echo, ultrasound bone densitometry. MRI physics: Protons, Alignments, Precession, Lamour frequency, Precession, frequency, Gyromagnetic constant, Vectors, Phase and Frequency, RF Pulse, T1 Relaxation, T2 Relaxation, TE and TR, Spatial encoding, K-Space.

Topics in solid earth geophysics with emphasis on elasticity and thermal state of the earth; Physical and chemical characteristics of the earth; Application of Physics and thermodynamics to earth materials and the use of available observable and laboratory data to derive information about the state of; and processes in the earth's interior; Seismology and the internal structure of the earth; The magnetic field of the earth: main field and time-varying components; Age and thermal state; Geochronology; Geodynamics

The composition of the earth; The physical characteristics of earth's material; material; electrical and magnetic properties; Earth's interior; Further evidence from seismology; geothermal state and geomagnetism; Geodynamics - Global picture of the dynamic earth; Plate theory and rheology of the earth's interior; Evidence from geomagnetic reversals; Mechanism of earthquake and the new global tectonics; Field and laboratory investigations especially high pressure geophysics

The eye as an optical instrument; reduced and schematic eyes; anomalies of refraction and optical aberrations of the eye. The Badal optometer; resolution and visual acuity. Laboratory work is included.

The extra-ocular muscles, their electrophysiology, actions, and innervation. Accommodation, convergence, the AC/A ratio and binocular co-ordination. Fusion, fusional vergence, retinal disparities and the horopter. Laboratory work is included.

The photochemistry of vision. Sensory aspects of vision; thresholds and adaptation. The mechanisms of colour vision; colour vision defects, their detection and significance. Electrophysiology of the retina and visual pathway. Laboratory work is included.

The perception of depth, direction, size, shape, distance, motion and time through the visual medium. Optical illusions and entoptic phenomena; their causes and significance to the visual system. Laboratory work is included.

Measurement with Optometer set-ups; Demonstration of Purkinje images, optical aberrations, effect of defocus on visual acuity and refractive anomalies. Schematic eye, visual acuities; vernier acuity, stereoacuity, optometer, contrast sensitivity. “AC/A ratio”