Environmental Biophysics (Study Program of Physics) (4 months)

BACKGROUND

Environmental Biophysics course is a course that discusses the principles of physics used to discuss temperature, water vapour and gas, water in organisms and their environment, wind, heat and mass transport, heat and water flow in the soil, the basics of radiation, and the interaction of sunlight with the environment: human, animal and plant.

OBJECTIVES

This course is designed to introduce students to the analysis of the interaction of living organisms by applying biophysical principles.

ACTIVITIES

1.             Class activities

2.             Field activities (site visit and field workshop)

SUBJECTS

1.             Environmental biophysics

2.             Temperature: thermal time, growing degree-days and biological evelopment

3.             Water vapor and other gases,

4.             Water in organisms and their environment

5.             Wind, heat and mass transport,

6.             Heat and mass transport

7.             Basic concept of radiation

8.             The interaction of sunlight with the environment: human, animal and plant