Exam Date: 09/22/20
These instructional objectives provide you with a guide for learning the course material. I will provide a comprehensive forumla sheet with the exam. During the examination you should be able to:
Matlab
- Write the command(s) to define a variable as another variable, single number, range of numbers in Matlab.
- Performa calculations on lists of nubmers.
- Write the command(s) for calculating an equation in Matlab.
- Write the function plot(x,y) with proper variables for plotting data in Matlab.
Mass Balances
- Define system, system boundary, open system, closed system, control volume, half-life, rate constant, and lumped model.
- Determine the appropriate control volume for a system.
- Derive the mass balance equation for a system.
- Solve problems using a mass balance.
- Calculate the concentration, rate constant, or half-life of a tracer molecule or drug.
- List the three assumptions about a compartment.
- Explain when a single compartment model versus two-compartment model is appropriate in pharmacokinetics.
- Calculate the concentration of a drug over time in a single-compartment model given a single dose or multiple doses.
- Calculate the minimum, maximum, and average concentration of a drug in a single-compartment model.
- Calculate the concentration of a drug over time in a two-compartment model given a single dose or multiple doses.
Bioinstrumentation
- Given two of voltage, current, resistance, use Ohm’s law to find the third.
- Use Kirchhoff’s current law to analyze circuits.
- Use Kirchhoff’s voltage law to analyze circuits.
- Combine resistors in series and parallel.
- Calculate the change in resistance of a resistance temperature detector (RTD).
- Use the thermistor equation to calculate temperature, resistance, or \(\beta\).
- Calculate transmittance and absorbance.
- Use the Beer-Lambert law to find concentration, intensity, (molar extinction coefficient), or path length.