James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

PH1020:03

Sport Physics

Townsville

HECS Band 2

39 hours lectures, 13 hours practice classes, 15 hours practicals and a project. Semester 2.

Available to all students but directed towards Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science students.

Staff: Dr K Ness.

Heat and thermodynamics, evaporative cooling, humidity; gas laws; partial pressure, gas absorption, drive tables; energy conversion and respiration, fluid dynamics.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to acquire a basic knowledge of the subject content and be able to use it to solve simple problems;
  2. a basis is formed to permit the development of more complex skills in subsequent years.

Assessment by a three-hour examination; tutorials; work performed during laboratory sessions and a project.