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STP 122 Optics and Waves

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences30 topics

STP 122 covers 30 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Capacitance and capacitors
  2. Parallel-plate capacitor
  3. Series and parallel capacitor combinations
  4. Energy stored in capacitors
  5. Direct current conduction in metals
  6. Potential difference, e.m.f. and drift velocity
  7. Resistivity, conductivity and temperature effects
  8. Internal resistance and complete circuits
  9. Kirchhoff’s laws and electric power
  10. Wheatstone bridge and meter bridge
  11. Potentiometer applications
  12. Chemical effects of electric current
  13. Electrolysis and Faraday’s laws
  14. Cells and accumulators
  15. Magnetic fields and magnetometer
  16. Reflection and Refraction at Plane Surfaces
  17. Refractive Index and Spherometer
  18. Total Internal Reflection and Applications
  19. Thin Lenses in Contact
  20. Lens Defects and Aberration Correction
  21. Optical Instruments and Human Eye
  22. Microscopes and Telescopes
  23. Magnifying Power and Angular Magnification
  24. Spectrometer and Prism Deviation
  25. Eye Defects and Correction
  26. Photometry
  27. Luminous Intensity, Flux and Illuminance
  28. Sound Waves in Air Columns and Strings
  29. Resonance, Doppler Effect and Beats
  30. Wave Phenomena and Electromagnetic Spectrum

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Capacitance and capacitors

Capacitance measures a capacitor’s ability to store electric charge for a given potential difference; it is the fundamental property that determines how capacitors function in medical instrumentation and diagnostic equipment. Mastering the formulae, types of capacitors, and their behaviour in series and parallel arrangements is essential for solving practical problems in the NUC CCMAS and NBTE exams.

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