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Textbooks Because textbooks are expensive and more than one book is necessary to cover all of the topics addressed in BIOEN 316, you are not required to buy a textbook. That is, you will not have homework problems from a book and there will be no test questions based solely on your readings from the book. However, there are a few books that will be very useful to have during the quarter. Where to buy: I have not requested the books to be stocked at the bookstore, supposing that you can buy them for less on line. If you need me to make an online purchase for you after which you will reimburse me, please let me know. Book for background: It will be helpful to refer to a human physiology book throughout your BioE core curriculum. If you like small paperback books, the Color Atlas of Physiology by Stefan Silbernagl and Agamemnon Despopoulos, which is priced in the $18 - $50 range on Amazon, might be right for you. You can also get this information and more from a heavy textbook such as Human Physiology by Silverthorn. The newest editions are expensive, but you can get earlier editions for much less, and the content will be very similar. The Signals part of the quarter Signals and Systems for Bioengineers, by John Semmlow, Second edition, 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-384982-3. Please buy this book if you can. It covers most of the concepts and mathematics from the first half of the course, and most lectures in the first 5 weeks will have an associated reading from it. Notes & corrections. Understanding Digital Signal Processing, by Richard Lyons, gives some of the clearest explanations of digital signal processing that I have ever seen. If you plan to in pursue signal processing or analysis in industry or graduate school, this book will be very helpful. It covers about 20% of the content of BIOEN 316. Any edition will do. Electric Circuits, 7th or newer edition, by Nilsson & Riedel. It shows how to solve the problems we will encounter in the analog filter circuits part of BIOEN 316. There are plenty of circuits books that cover similar material, but this Electric Circuits is used in EE 215 so there are probably lots of them around campus. Schaum's Outline of Digital Signal Processing. These outline books don't have great explanations, but they do have a lot of practice problems and they are cheap. The Sensors part of the quarter Medical Instrumentation Application and Design, by John Webster, provides a good overview of a variety of medical sensors and measurement systems. Every bioinstrumentation engineer should have a reference book like this one. It covers a variety of topics that will be on one of the quizzes and the final exam. Wikipedia does too, but the level of detail in the book is more appropriate for this course. The third and fourth editions cover the same content, but I have heard that there are a lot of mistakes in the third edition, especially in the end-of-chapter problems. Textbook(s) you should already have: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Part II, or Principles and Practice of Physics, whatever textbook you used for PHYS 122. It has the foundation that you need for understanding circuit components and sensors. |
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