This document provides an index for the course "Biological Physics" which is a 4th semester, 2 credit course taught by Wade Naylor. The index outlines the 14 weeks of content covered in the course including chapters on energy and cells, molecular dynamics, diffusion, entropy, chemical forces, self assembly, membranes, and nerve impulses. Students will prepare presentations and finalize their report topics at the end of the course.
This document provides an index for the course "Biological Physics" which is a 4th semester, 2 credit course taught by Wade Naylor. The index outlines the 14 weeks of content covered in the course including chapters on energy and cells, molecular dynamics, diffusion, entropy, chemical forces, self assembly, membranes, and nerve impulses. Students will prepare presentations and finalize their report topics at the end of the course.
This document provides an index for the course "Biological Physics" which is a 4th semester, 2 credit course taught by Wade Naylor. The index outlines the 14 weeks of content covered in the course including chapters on energy and cells, molecular dynamics, diffusion, entropy, chemical forces, self assembly, membranes, and nerve impulses. Students will prepare presentations and finalize their report topics at the end of the course.
This document provides an index for the course "Biological Physics" which is a 4th semester, 2 credit course taught by Wade Naylor. The index outlines the 14 weeks of content covered in the course including chapters on energy and cells, molecular dynamics, diffusion, entropy, chemical forces, self assembly, membranes, and nerve impulses. Students will prepare presentations and finalize their report topics at the end of the course.
R: Means no lecture, just self study & assumed knowledge
1 R
Chapter 1: The Quality of Energy? What the Ancients Knew?
Chapter 2: Whats Inside Cells (2013 student videos as examples): Sec. 2.1 (BioPhysics.Daniel.May) Sec. 2.2.2 (Biophysics-Zhijin Chen) Sec. 2.2.3-4 (Siyu) Sec. 2.3 (BioPhysics_Molecular Devices_Mobile-Cellular) 2 Chapter 3: The Molecular Dance 3 Chapter 4: Random Walks, Friction & Diffusion Part I 4 Chapter 4: Ficks Laws and the Nernst-Planck Relation Part II 5 Chapter 5: Life in the slow lane (presentation preparation) 6 Midterm Reviews of Chapter 5: Life in the slow lane 7 Chapter 6: Entropy, Temperature & Free Energy 8 Continued 9 Chapter 7: Entropic Forces 10 Chapter 8: Chemical forces and self assembly (student subsections) 11 Chapter 11: Machines in membranes (student subsections) 12 Continued 13 Chapter 12: Nerve Impulses 14 Continued + finalizing report topics