Week plan
- Mon: Lecture and sometimes lab
- Thu: Lecture
W34 Introduction
- Book and papers
- Basic concepts: Heat, entropy, free energy, hydrophilic/phobic, membranes, protein folding,...
- Lectures
- Exercises: Nelson Yor turn 1A, Prob 1.3, 2.2, 2.5
W35 Passive and active walkers
- Book and papers
- Nelson: Ch. 4
- Einstein 1905, Langevin 1908
- Physics background:
- Basic concepts: Diffusion, random walks, fluid friction
- Lectures:
- Lecture 2: Microscopy & image analysis
- Lecture 3: Image analysis, diffusion, fluid friction
- Lab: Brownian motion
- Exercises: Nelson Your Turn 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E, Numerical random walk
W36 Passive and active walkers
- Book and papers
- Nelson: Ch. 4 & 5
- Purcell 1976
- Basic concepts: Life at low Reynolds number
- Lectures:
- Lecture 4: Students present Purcell's paper "Life at low Reynolds number"
- Lecture 5: Dimensional analysis, diffusion & friction
- Lab: No
- Exercises: Nelson Your Turn 5 A-G
W37 Passive and active walkers
- Book and papers
- Basic concepts: Active matter, Viscek model
- Lectures:
- Lecture 2: Viscek model
- Lecture 3: Active matter
- Lab: Viscek model simulations
- Exercises:
W38-40 Entropy, ions and membranes
- Book and papers
- Nelson: Ch. 6, 7, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
- Lecture notes
- Basic concepts: Entropy, free energy, osmotic force and flow, ions at membranes, ion pumping, freezing cells, nerve impulses, Hodkin-Huxley model
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- Book and papers
- Basic concepts:
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- Lab: No
- Exercises:
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