PHY238Y  PHYSICS FOR LIFE SCIENCES II
                                                    Quarters 2 & 3
Lecturer: Dr. T. Antimirova
Office: MP 251A
Phone number: (416) 946 4071
Email:antimirova@physics.utoronto.ca

2001/2002 Term Test #1 (Liquids and Gases Section)
Fall term
Temperature and Beahviour of Gases
Review: Molecular Mass, Mole, Pressure, Temperature
Osmosis
Osmotic Pressure of Cells
Ideal Gas Law
Molecular Energies
Brownian Motion

Mechanics of  Nonviscous Fluids
Mechanics of  Nonviscous Fluids
Atmospheric pressure
Blood Pressure
Pressure  in Human Organs
 

Viscosity, Viscous Flow, Low-Speed and Hight -Speed Drag Forces
Continuity Equation  Applied to a Cardiovascular System (Total Cross-Section Area od Capillaries)
Atherosclerosis
Inlet effect in circularoty system
Viscous and Inertial Drag Forces,   Reynolds Number
Sedimentation
Drag forces on microscopic swimming organisms (bacteria)
Turbulence (onset)
Vascular Turbulence
Similarity (Best number)
High-Speed Drag Force (rain drop example)

Spring term

1st year material review (electricity)
Electrical Current in Electrolytic Solutions
Bioelecricity
Resistivity of human body
Electrostatic interactions in water
Ion transport through membranes
Nerve Pulse Propagation

Exciting Topics
Chaos
Lotka-Volterra Two Species Model
Fractals
 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Physics), Institute for Problems of Materials Science,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kyev, Ukraine 1990

M.Eng. (Engineering Physics) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
Russia 1985

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Physics Instructor, PhysicsDepartment, University of Toronto, August 1999-present

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,   May 1998 - July 1999

Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department , Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,  March 1997- August 1998

Research Scientist, Institute for Problems in Materials Science,
National Academy of Sciences, Kyev, Ukraine, 1990-1996

FOREIGN TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, National Agricultural University, Kyev, Ukraine
1995/1996 (part-time)

Assistant Professor, International Institute of Civil Aviation, Kyev, Ukraine,
1995 (part-time)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  My research interests lie in an interface between Condensed Matter Physics, Physical Chemistry and Materials Science with the emphasis on ferroelectrics and a broad range of related materials (including piezoelectric and ferroelastic materials, functional ceramics, orientational glasses). Materials that can be modified by very small amounts of impurities in order to achieve desirable properties are of a particular interest. These encompass a large group of materials including solids that undergo an impurity-induced phase transitions of various nature (for example, structural or glass-like), depending largely on the impurity involved. Some impurities are able to change the nature of the existing phase transition (for example, ferroelectric or antiferroelectric). Understanding of this phenomena allows to achieve a set of desirable properties in advanced materials design. Another area of my interest is a study of an impact of unavoidable defects and impurities on materials properties and performance. Effective control of properties of many electronic materials is one of major unsolved problems of functional electronics.
More recently I dveloped interest in photochemistry and biological/medical physics.
 

PUBLICATIONS