PHYS 3511
Biological Physics
Winter 2020
Topics
- Biological length scales
- cellular, DNA and RNA systems
- force and energy in swimming bacteria, protein folding and electrophoresis
- randomness and diffusion
- selected nerve-signal or color-vision topics
- statistics applied to medical problems.
Readings
- No required textbook. Recommended: P. Nelson, Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life and Physical Models of Living System (title as printed); R. Milo and R. Phillips, Cell Biology by the Numbers; Zinke-Allmang, Sills, Nejat and Galiano-Riveros, Physics for the Life Sciences, updated 2nd edition.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2020
- Course source ↗
- Names and title details follow the source; no editions are inferred for the first three recommended books.