Biological Physics (2018)
Sriram Ramaswamy, Vijay Krishnamurthy and Shashi Thutupalli

Tue & Fri 1400-1530 (First meeting on Fri 3 Aug 2018)
at the Multimedia Room, Ground Floor, Physics Department, IISc

  • the living state as a physicist sees it
  • what a cell contains
  • noise and biological information
  • random walks, Brownian motion, diffusion
  • fluid flow in cell and microbe biology
  • entropic forces, electrostatics, chemical reactions, self-assembly
  • macromolecules: statistics, forces, folding, melting
  • molecular machines
  • electrical transport across membranes: neurons, nerve impulses
  • cell membrane mechanics: elasticity, order, shape, dynamics
  • the cytoskeleton and cell mechanics
  • collective motility

Prerequisites: Mechanics and Statistical physics at 1st-year graduate student level
Evaluation: Homework assignments, mid-semester & end-semester exams

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