BIOL280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Spectrometry, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Surface Plasmon Resonance
8 Nov 2017
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An introduction to the physical principles that underlie the dynamics of life from the macro to molecular scale. The course is intended for 2nd year science and engineering students and will cover a broad spectrum of topics including aspects of biotechnology, bioengineering, nanotechnology, and biomedical physics. Requisites: second-year standing in an honours plan (cross-listed with phys 280) An understanding of biophysical processes provides a strong foundation for upper-year courses in physiology, biotechnology and medical physics. With the recent appointment of a biophysicist, the expertise to teach this fundamental course is now available. The course is designed to be a general introduction to the area as well as the pre-requisite for a forthcoming upper-year biophysics course. Systemic biophysics: biomechanics, biophysics and fluid flow, biophysics and gas transport, physics of audition, physics of vision. Cellular-molecular biophysics: cells: content, physics of biomolecules, physics of bio-membranes, thermodynamics: bio-systems, bioenergetics, neurobiophysics. Elementary biophysics: an introduction, by p. k. srivastava.
