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General Science · Year 2 · Core sciences
S4 Statistics, waves, physical chemistry and physiology
Learn to analyse experimental data, study waves and optics, enter physical chemistry and spectroscopy, and connect biology with chemistry.
196hours of coursework
20weeks at 10 h
6steps
12new courses
4universities
Target skills
- Descriptive statistics, inference, confidence intervals, regression in Python
- Oscillators, waves, light and materials, geometrical and physical optics
- Gases, thermodynamics and kinetics in physical chemistry
- Molecular spectroscopy: infrared, UV-visible, reading spectra
- Organisation of the human body, tissues, skeleton, muscles, nervous and endocrine systems
- Chemical biology: small molecules, proteins and biochemical assays
Semester project
A statistical study in Python on real laboratory data (spectra or physiological measurements): description, confidence intervals, regression and a two-page report.
Courses this semester
- 1University of MichiganBeginnerPython, Jupyter, Matplotlib, NumPy, pandas, Seaborn, Statsmodels
Stated prerequisites: High school algebra; basic Python recommended
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python Beginner 20 h 4.7 (2,741) Inferential Statistical Analysis with Python Intermediate 22 h 4.6 (938) Fitting Statistical Models to Data with Python Intermediate 15 h 4.4 (718) - 2Rice UniversityIntermediate
Stated prerequisites: A year of introductory physics
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Physics of Oscillators and Waves Intermediate 20 h 4.8 (20) Physics of Light and Materials Intermediate 17 h 4.8 (10) Physics of Geometrical and Physical Optics Intermediate 20 h — - 3University of ManchesterBeginner
- 4University of ManchesterIntermediateVirtual spectroscopic laboratory
Stated prerequisites: Some related experience required
- 5Rice UniversityIntermediate
Stated prerequisites: Some medical terminology knowledge (preferred)
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Anatomy & Physiology: Levels of Organization Intermediate 10 h 4.7 (126) Anatomy & Physiology: Support & Movement Intermediate 12 h 4.9 (34) Anatomy & Physiology: Regulation, Integration, & Control Intermediate 9 h 4.8 (36) - 6University of GenevaIntermediate
Reading
OpenIntro StatisticsD. Diez, M. Çetinkaya-Rundel, C. BarrThe most widely used introductory statistics textbook, for Statistics with Python.Free PDF
University Physics, Volume 3OpenStax (Rice University)Optics and modern physics: chapters 1 to 4 for Waves and Optics, the rest for S5.Free (web and PDF), CC BY 4.0 licence
Anatomy and Physiology 2eOpenStaxUnits 1 to 3 for Human Anatomy & Physiology I.Free, CC BY 4.0
Things to watch
- Take Introduction to Physical Chemistry before Molecular Spectroscopy, which assumes some background.
- Physics of Waves and Optics requires a year of physics: mechanics (S2) and electromagnetism (S3).
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