Course Contents
- Introduction:
1.1. What, where, how, why biophysics?
1.2. Searching for information, citation, plagiarism and
originality
- Order of magnitude physics, Energy and Life
2.1. Physical principles in biology; Energetics and order in
living systems
2,2. Dimensional analysis
2.3. Molecular scales and biology by numbers
- Cellular architecture
3.1 Nucleic acids 3.2 Construction plans for cells and organisms 3.3
Random walks 3.4 Rate equations and dynamics of the cell 3.5
Biopolymers and cytoskeletal dynamics 3.6 Network organization in
space and time 3.7 Lipids, membranes and electrophysiology
Light in biology, microscopy techniques, Measuring forces in
bio-molecules, Movement of cells and analysis, measuring energetics of
bio-molecular reactions.
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