medical phyiscs, who else is doing it? (1 Viewer)

[Hallatia]

I have noticed that medical physics is the least popular option, which I find shocking because I believe it is the most beneficial, quantum physics is just boring and astro-phyics is pointless, I do not believe in space exploration

anyway I was wonderring if anybody else here was doing medical physics?

 

[SoulSearcher]

New teacher is going to teach us medical physics, but I might defect to do astrophysics, will have a lot of knowledge in that area when we get up to the module.

 

[jest]

did it last year, it was pretty easy, just really learning about how a bunch of machines work and stuff

best way to summarise the notes is in tables, like have one for each eg MRI, and have a column for how it works, advantages, disadvantages, impacts on society, etc

 

[Hallatia]

did it last year, it was pretty easy, just really learning about how a bunch of machines work and stuff

best way to summarise the notes is in tables, like have one for each eg MRI, and have a column for how it works, advantages, disadvantages, impacts on society, etc

that is good to hear, I am an Englishy person, I wish I was better at physics, I am good with formulae and most of it because I really like physics, but I hate graphs and there are some concepts I struggle with,

my teacher says she will try to let us play with some machinery for medical physics

 

[jest]

that is good to hear, I am an Englishy person, I wish I was better at physics, I am good with formulae and most of it because I really like physics, but I hate graphs and there are some concepts I struggle with,

my teacher says she will try to let us play with some machinery for medical physics

there's not much graphs but you will be looking at pictures eg x rays, ct scans, etc so you can talk about the difference in these, etc. there's only a few formulas you really need eg with ultrasound but yeah most of the exam questions, esp. the bigger mark ones are more english-y type questions

 

[alcalder]

Remember, the options you do depend on the strengths of the teacher and what they did at Uni and feel comfy with. eg

From Quanta to Quarks - likely to be a Chem/Physics major
Astrophysics - Physics major in Astronomy
Geophysics - Geology/Physics major
Medical Physics - biology/physics major
The Age of Silicon - Physics/Engineer/electronics major

Chem/Physics is your usual teacher. Bio/Physics is not that common, nor Geo/Physics and Engineer/Physics (like me) even rarer. Otherwise, teachers are working on interests. So you may get a teacher who is Physics but has a big interest in electronics. And so on.

But I really hope you get a lot out of this unit, it looks very very interesting.

 

[ianc]

yeah there are no hard concepts to understand except possibly for MRI. As far as medical physics being the most beneficial - i'm not sure - because if you're doing physics at uni either as part of engineering or a science program you'll end up learning the quantum stuff anyway. But I enjoyed this topic because it showed you a real application of physics - which is sort of what engineering is: making physics do something useful.

But I don't know why this topic is the least popular - i'd imagine that is just the skewed sample of bos - because it is the shortest and easiest.

Anything which reduces the amount of work you need to do for the HSC is a good thing in my opinion....I did medical physics and never regretted it - I beat all my classmates who did other options

 

[Forbidden.]

I wanted to take on a medical or industrial career but astrophysics is easier and does not consume as much resources as medical physics and apparently the chemistry option topic shipwrecks is quite popular ...

 

[Hallatia]

yeah there are no hard concepts to understand except possibly for MRI. As far as medical physics being the most beneficial - i'm not sure - because if you're doing physics at uni either as part of engineering or a science program you'll end up learning the quantum stuff anyway. But I enjoyed this topic because it showed you a real application of physics - which is sort of what engineering is: making physics do something useful.

But I don't know why this topic is the least popular - i'd imagine that is just the skewed sample of bos - because it is the shortest and easiest.

Anything which reduces the amount of work you need to do for the HSC is a good thing in my opinion....I did medical physics and never regretted it - I beat all my classmates who did other options

I think in terms of life it seems to be a benificial thing, better knowledge to have then quantum physics that is for sure

there is not as many resources for the subject also which is annoying, but I am hoping that we will get by,I have faith in my teacher, that and if I do poorly it will not count toward my UAI anyway

 

[acullen]

Remember, the options you do depend on the strengths of the teacher and what they did at Uni and feel comfy with. eg

From Quanta to Quarks - likely to be a Chem/Physics major

Exactly our situation. He even wrote the 2004 HSC Chemistry paper, so quanta to quarks was a logical choice for him.

At the high school level, it wont really matter which elective you pick. In the UOW Medical and Radiation Physics degree, you have to wait until third year until you hit the specialised subjects. By then you have probably forgotten the majority of high school curriculum (possibly with plenty of brain cells killed by alcohol in between).

 

[airie]

I'm doing Med Physics. But I wanted to do Astro! >.< And I think my physics teacher said that he has a degree in Astrophysics, so I don't know why are we doing Med instead :mad1:

 

[bogus_wheel]

Well if you are interested, last year medical physics was the second most popular option. 27% of physics students did it (after Quanta to Quarks with 44%)

 

[Forbidden.]

I'm doing Med Physics. But I wanted to do Astro! >.< And I think my physics teacher said that he has a degree in Astrophysics, so I don't know why are we doing Med instead :mad1:

it would be perfect if we swapped ... astrophysics is shit ... but the problem is your school is an all girls school and my class (even though school is coed) is full of men

 

[JCDenton]

I have noticed that medical physics is the least popular option, which I find shocking because I believe it is the most beneficial, quantum physics is just boring and astro-phyics is pointless, I do not believe in space exploration

anyway I was wonderring if anybody else here was doing medical physics?

Well, apart from the fact that what you've just said goes against everything I think, yes I am doing med. physics. I find medical physics boring as all buggery because every science is turning into a poor excuse for another science (ie. Bio draws from chem and phys, chem draws from phys and bio and phys is drawing from chem and now bio!)

I wish it would all keep separate so I wouldn't confuse myself with the different teachings and courses (also gets damn repetitive).
Medical physics is dull beyond belief in my opinion. It depends on the person, but our class is better at things along the lines of Quanta to quarks tham medical physics because we all do chem as well (I am one of the four people that do bio along with physics and one of the two who do all the sciences).

What subject you do should not depend on your teacher, but your resourses and ability to understand the concepts involved and how interesting you find it.

For a final time I'm putting my foot down and saying that medical physics is pointlessly borring and useless (thats what we have biologists for) and Quanta to quarks are great for solving everything and astro physics has lots of advantages, such as the moon. (They found a rare isotpe of hydrogen on the moon, the atom with three neutrons, which can be used as a clean, renewable energy source... HA HA! Suck that green peace! Suck that solar power! Nuclear is still the best!)

~Rusty~

 

[Forbidden.]

Astrophysics isn't much fun, I like nuclear power too.

 

[alcalder]

Now you see, that is where there is a mis-conception about life. You can't really keep things separate and in nice little organised boxes.

Maths is a tool that is used in Science (and when you get to Uni you wonder wherther you have walked into a Maths or Physics lecture sometimes).

All the sciences are increasingly combining and never really should have been separated. Think about the mechanics and electrical functions in the human body. There is bio and Physics there along with chem.

Certainly, these options combine science topics and I think that is the idea; to see that there is a big joined world out there beyond school.

If I had my way we would scrap all subjects and just have a super courses with subject teaches as tutors to help students with specific parts of the major course.


And then what is the next big thing in scientific research? I truely believe it will be bio-mimicry, which brings all elements together quite nicely.

 

[Nodster]

I do medical physics by distance education!! Its pretty fun!!

 

[wrxsti]

medical physics is fun.

 

[minijumbuk]

Unfortunately, I. =(

We haven't started doing it yet, but it just seems boring =(
Quanta to Quarks seems cooler to me (I'm not chemistry-like than physics-like)

 

[karnage]

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