Notes:
- This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
- RECITATIONS/LABS BEGIN 9/8
- For the Reading Assignments, you need to ask a question online in Webassign on (usually) two of the assigned readings. These are generally due at NOON the previous day and worth about 3 participation points each. Yes, they add up.
- Some slides will be posted in Adobe pdf format on Canvas after the class (never before!) takes place. Note that these slides only represent a skeleton of the presentation and will rarely include solutions to problems and questions posed, derivations, or representations of class discussions. If you miss a class, these notes do not suffice to fill you in on what happened! Be sure to check with someone who actually attended!
| Date | Class | Reading | Content | Quiz |
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Week 1 |
No Recitation | No Lab | ||
| T 9/2 | 1 | 1 Introduction to the class 1.1 The disciplines: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Math 1.1.1 Science as making models 1.1.4 What Physics can do for Biologists 1.2 Thinking about Thinking and Knowing 1.2.1 The nature of scientific knowledge |
Why is this class different? | Bring your clickers! |
| Th 9/4 | 2 | 2. Modeling with mathematics 2.1 Using math in science 2.1.1 How math in science is different from math in math 2.1.2 Measurement 2.1.3 Dimensions and units 2.1.3.1 Complex dimensions and dimensional analysis 2.1.3.2 Changing units 2.1.4 Estimation 2.1.4.1 Useful numbers |
Measurement and Math: Dimensions and Units Thinking vs. intution Estimation |
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Week 2 |
Recitation: How big is a worm | Lab 0: Survey and Intro | ||
| T 9/9 | 3 | I-1 Interlude 1: The Main Question: How do things move? 3 Kinematics: Where and When? 3.1.1 Coordinates 3.1.2 Vectors 3.1.3 Time 3.1.4 Kinematics Graphs |
Measurement: Dimensions and Units II Beginning kinematics |
Quiz 1 |
| Th 9/11 | 4 | 2.2.5 Values, change, and rates of change 2.2.5.1 Derivatives 2.2.5.1.1 What is a derivative, anyway? 3.2 Kinematic Variables 3.2.1 Velocity 3.2.1.1 Average velocity 3.2.1.2 Instantaneous velocity 3.2.1.3 Calculating with average velocity |
Coordinates and graphs Making sense of x, v, a vs. t |
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Week 3 |
Recitation: The cat and the antelope | Lab 1a: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos | ||
| T 9/16 | 5 | 3.2.2 Acceleration 3.2.2.1 Average acceleration 3.2.2.2 Instantaneous acceleration 3.2.2.3 Calculating with constant acceleration 4.1 Newton's Laws 4.1.1 Physical content of Newton's Laws 4.1.1.1 Object egotism | Rate of change and velocity: instantaneous and average Derivatives; antiderivatives |
Quiz 2 |
| Th 9/18 | 6 | 4.1.1.2 Inertia 4.1.1.3 Interactions 4.1.1.4 Superposition: 4.1.1.5 Mass 4.1.1.6 Reciprocity 4.1.2.2 Newton 0 |
Wrapping up kinematics Developing intution for x, v, a |
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Week 4 |
Recitation: Forces for objects & systems | Lab 1b: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos | ||
| T 9/23 | 7 | 4.1.2.2.1 Free-body diagrams 4.1.2.2.2 System Schema Introduction 4.1.2.4 Newton's 2nd law 4.1.2.4.1 Reading the content in Newton's 2nd law 4.1.2.4.2 Newton 2 as a stepping rule 4.1.2.4.2.1 Newton 2 on a spreadsheet |
Acceleration Hints of Newton's laws (What's a force?) |
Quiz 3 |
| Th 9/25 | 8 | 4.1.2.5 Newton's 3rd law 4.1.2.5.1 Using system schemas for Newton's 3rd law 4.1.2 Formulation of Newton's Laws as foothold principles 4.1.2.1 Quantifying impulse and force |
System Schema Free Body Diagrams The dreaded inclined plane (Newton in 3D) What's a force? (continued) |
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| Th 9/25 | 8.5! | 4.1.2.3 Newton's 1st law | (sorry it was out of order!) | |
Week 5 |
Recitation: The spring constant of DNA | Lab 2a: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis | ||
| T 9/30 | 9 | 4.2 Kinds of Forces 4.2.1 Springs 4.2.1.1 Realistic springs 4.2.1.2 Normal forces 4.2.1.2.1 A simple model of solid matter 4.2.1.3 Tension forces 4.2.2 Resistive forces 4.2.2.1 Friction | Newton 2 and 3 (how NOT to look at N3) Forces: Springs, tension, normal, and friction forces |
Quiz 4 |
| Th 10/2 | 10 | 4.2.2.2 Viscosity 4.2.2.3 Drag 4.2.3 Gravitational forces 4.2.3.1 Flat-earth gravity 4.2.3.1.1 Free-fall in flat-earth gravity 4.2.3.3 The gravitational field |
Viscosity and drag, Gravity |
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Week 6 |
Recitation: Motion of a paramecium | Lab 2b: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis | ||
| T 10/7 | 11 | MIDTERM 1 (on lectures 1-10) | ||
| Th 10/9 | 12 | 4.2.4 Electric forces 4.2.4.1 Charge and the structure of matter 4.2.4.2 Polarization 4.2.4.3 Coulomb's law |
Kinds of forces, charges
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Week 7 |
Recitation: Electrostatic force and Hydrogen bonds |
Lab 3a: Observing Brownian motion | ||
| T 10/14 | 13 | 4.2.4.3.1 Coulomb's law -- vector character 4.2.4.3.2 Reading the content in Coulomb's law |
Charges, induction, |
Quiz 5 |
| Th 10/16 | 14 | 4.2.4.4 The Electric field 4.3 Coherent vs. random motion |
Go over exam |
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Week 8 |
Recitation: Electrophoresis | Lab 3b: Observing Brownian motion | ||
| T 10/21 | 15 |
4.3.1 Linear momentum 4.3.1.1 Restating Newton's 2nd law: momentum 4.3.1.2 Momentum conservation |
Momentum |
Quiz 6 |
| Th 10/23 | 16 | 4.3.2 The role of randomness: Biological implications 4.3.2.1 Diffusion and random walks 4.3.2.2 Fick's law |
Emergence, random motion | |
Week 9 |
Recitation: Gas properties and pressure | Lab 3c: Observing Brownian motion | ||
| T 10/28 | 17 | 5. Macro models of matter 5.1.1 Density-solids 5.1.2 Young's modulus 5.1.6 Soft matter 5.1.6.1 Mechanical properties of cells |
Random motion, diffusion |
Quiz 7 |
| Th 10/30 | 18 | 5.2 Fluids 5.2.1 Pressure 7.1 Kinetic theory: the ideal gas law |
Kinetic theory of gases Pressure |
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Week 10 |
Recitation: Diffusion in cells | Lab 4a: Brownian motion vs. directed forces | ||
| T 11/4 | 19 | I-2: Interlude 2: The Micro to Macro Connection 3.1.2.3 The gradient: a vector derivative 5.2.2 Archimedes' Principle 5.2.3 Buoyancy 5.2.5.2.1 Surface tension |
Fluids: Buoyancy, surface tension | Quiz 8 |
| Th 11/6 | 20 | 5.2.6 Fluid flow 5.2.6.1 Quantifying fluid flow 5.2.6.2 The continuity equation 5.2.6.3 Internal flow -- the HP equation |
Continuity (A1v1 = A2v2) Fluid flow (or why arteriosclerosis is worse than you think) |
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Week 11 |
Recitation: Fluid flow
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Lab 4b: Brownian motion vs. directed forces | ||
| T 11/11 | 21 | 6. Energy: The Quantity of Motion 6.1 Kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem 6.1.1 Reading the content in the Work-Energy theorem |
Quiz 9 | |
| Th 11/13 | 22 | MIDTERM 2 | ||
Week 12 |
Recitation: Energy skate park and collisions | Lab 5a: Motion and Work in living systems | ||
| T 11/18 | 23 | 6.2 Energy of place -- potential energy 6.2.1 Gravitational potential energy 6.2.2 Spring potential energy 6.2.3 Electric potential energy |
Go over exam | |
| Th 11/20 | 24 | 6.3 The conservation of mechanical energy |
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Week 13 |
No Recitation | No Lab | ||
| T 11/25 | 25 | 6.4.1 Energy at the sub-molecular level |
Potential energy Energy conservation |
Quiz 10 |
Week 14 |
Recitation: Protein stability | Lab 5b: Motion and Work in living systems | ||
| T 12/2 | 26 | 5.3 Heat and temperature 5.3.2 Thermal properties of matter 5.3.2.1 Thermal energy and specific heat 5.3.2.2 Heat capacity 5.3.2.3 Heat transfer |
Energy and heat |
(No quiz) |
| Th 12/4 | 27 | 7. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics 7.2 The 1st law of thermodynamics 7.3 The 2nd law of thermodynamics 7.4.1 Why we need a 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
Electric PE and molecular forces | |
Week 15 |
Recitation: Temperature regulation | Lab: Makeup lab and survey | ||
| T 12/9 | 28 | Quiz 11 | ||
| Th 12/11 | 29 | No reading for the last day | Heat and temperature |
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| TBD | FINAL EXAM | Location TBD | ||