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Bio322: Biophysics I Lecture Notes
[Ver. 2015]
Lecure notes will be posted here as the topics are completed
- Energetics of
life
- Dimensional
analysis & Orders of magnitude
- Biology by numbers - Ref. Physical Biology of the Cell by
Philipps et al.
- (a) spatial scales [notes]
- (b) temporal scales [notes]
- Powers of ten- Charles and Ray Eames [video]
- Mechanical equilibrium and Hookean springs as an example of elasticity
[slides]
- Random walk
polymers {Dr. Apratim Chatterjee}.
- Applying RW polymer models to experimental cellular biophysics [slides]
- Protein folding and Levinthal's paradox [slides]
- Entropy and
Ligand-Receptor binding
- Membrane biophysics {Dr. Shiva Patil} (for notes please refer to Phys.
Biol. Cell)
- Mechanics of the
Cytoskeleton
Examination material (syllabus)
- Topics 1-7 considered for mid-semester exam (20 marks)
- All topics covered will be considered for the end-semester exam (30
marks)
External sources & additional reading
Erwin Schrödinger (1944) "What is Life" [link]
Galileo
Galilei's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (U. Adelaide)
Powers
of ten
Drosophila's circadian clock explained in a video "The Drosophila Molecular Clock Model"
Online physics simulations (incl. gene expression) PhET
Stochastic
problems in physics and astronomy by S. Chandrashekhar (1943) Rev. of
Modern Phys.
Updated: 17 Nov 2015
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