Week 1 |
Recitation: Concept survey |
Lab: No lab |
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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 |
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Why is this class different? |
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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 |
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Measurement and Math: Dimensions and Units |
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Week 2 |
Recitation: How big is a worm? |
Lab 0: Survey and Intro |
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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 |
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Measurement and Math: Dimensions and Units II |
Quiz 1 |
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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 |
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Coordinates and graphs |
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Week 3 |
Recitation:
The cat and the antelope |
Lab 1: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos |
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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
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Rate of change and velocity: instantaneous and average |
Quiz 2 |
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4.1.1.1 Object
egotism:
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 |
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SNOW DAY
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Week 4 |
Recitation:
Forces for objects & systems
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Lab 1: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos |
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4.1.2.2 Newton 0
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 |
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Acceleration |
Quiz 3 |
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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 |
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Physical content of Newton's law,
What's a force? Newton 0 & 1 |
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Week 5 |
Recitation:
The spring constant of DNA |
Lab 2: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis |
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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 |
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Newton 2 and 3 |
Quiz 4 |
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4.2.2.2 Viscosity
4.2.2.3 Drag
4.2.3
Gravitational forces
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Forces: Springs, tension, normal, and friction forces |
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Week 6 |
Recitation:
Motion of a paramecium |
Lab 2: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis |
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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
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Viscosity and drag,
Gravity |
Quiz 5 |
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MIDTERM 1 |
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Week 7 |
Recitation: Electrostatic force and Hydrogen bonds
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Lab 3:
Observing Brownian motion |
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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 |
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Go over exam
Viscosity and drag |
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4.2.4.3.1 Coulomb's law -- vector character
4.2.4.3.2 Reading the content in Coulomb's law
4.2.4.4 The Electric field |
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Kinds of forces, charges
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Week 8 |
Recitation: Electrophoresis |
Lab 3:
Observing Brownian motion |
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4.3 Coherent vs. random motion
4.3.1 Linear momentum
4.3.1.1 Restating Newton's 2nd law: momentum
4.3.1.2 Momentum conservation |
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Charges, induction,
Coulomb's law |
Quiz 6 |
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4.3.2 The role of randomness: Biological implications
4.3.2.1 Diffusion and random walks
4.3.2.2 Fick's law |
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Momentum |
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Week 9 |
Recitation:
Gas properties and pressure |
Lab 3:
Observing Brownian motion |
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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 |
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Emergence, random motion
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Quiz 7 |
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5.2 Fluids
5.2.1 Pressure
7.1 Kinetic theory: the ideal gas law |
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Random motion, diffusion |
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Week 10 |
Recitation: Diffusion in cells |
Lab 4: The competition between Brownian motion and directed forces |
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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 |
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Kinetic theory of gases |
Quiz 8 |
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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 |
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Pressure |
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Week 11 |
Recitation: Fluid flow
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Lab 4:
The competition between Brownian motion and directed forces |
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Fluids: Statics and flow |
Quiz 9 |
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MIDTERM 2 |
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Week 12 |
Recitation: Energy skate park and collisions |
Lab 5:
Motion and Work in living systems |
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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
6.2 Energy of place -- potential energy |
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Go over exam
Fluids: Buoyancy, surface tension |
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6.2.1 Gravitational potential
energy
6.2.2 Spring potential energy
6.2.3 Electric potential energy |
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Fluid: flow |
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Week 13 |
Recitation: Protein stability |
Lab 5:
Motion and Work in living systems |
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6.3 The conservation of mechanical energy
6.3.1 Interpreting
mechanical energy graphs
6.3.2 Mechanical energy loss -- thermal energy
6.3.3 Forces
from potential energy |
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Potential energy |
Quiz 10 |
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6.4.1 Energy at the sub-molecular level
6.4.2 Atomic and Molecular
forces
6.4.2.1 Interatomic forces
6.4.2.2 Chemical bonding |
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Energy conservation |
Quiz 11 |
Week 14 |
Recitation:
Temperature regulation |
Makeup labs |
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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 |
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Energy and heat |
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I-2: Interlude 2: The Micro to Macro Connection
7. Thermodynamics and Statistical
Physics
7.3 The 1st law of thermodynamics
7.4.1 Why we need a 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
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Electric PE and molecular forces |
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Week 15 |
Recitation: |
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29 |
No reading for the last day |
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Heat and temperature |
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Exam Week |
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Time: |
6:30-8:30 PM |
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FINAL EXAM |
Location:
Physics 1412 |
