APPLIED BIOPHYSICS
cod. 21968

Academic year 2007/08
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisica applicata (a beni culturali, ambientali, biologia e medicina) (FIS/07)
Field
Sperimentale-applicativo
Type of training activity
Characterising
32 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
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Course unit content

<br /><br />The light; <br />the retina; <br />the photoreceptors; <br />photopic vision and colours; <br />scotopic vision; <br />the photopigments; <br />the rhodopsin cicle; <br />receptor potential; <br />theory of the second messanger; <br />cyclic GMP; <br />image processing in the retina; <br />noise and sound; <br />audiogram; <br />outer, middle and inner ear; <br />the organ of Corti; <br />the cochlea and tonotopicity; <br />acoustis potentials; <br />sensibility and tone resolution; <br />propagation of the acoustic information.

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