PHYS 2010 - Introductory Biological Physics

Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 3

 

Content

  • Life from the Perspective of Physics 
  • What’s Inside Cells: The Structure of Biological Molecules   
  • The Structure of Biological Molecules
  • Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics
  • Statistical Thermodynamics of Life
  • Biological Polymers
  • Diffusion
  • Life at Low Reynolds Number
  • Rate Equations and Dynamics in the Cell
  • Molecular Motor
  • Physical Properties of Cell Membrane
  • Physics of Neuron

 

Remarks

  • Previous Course Code(s): BIPH 2010

  • Prerequisite(s): (LIFS 1901 OR level 3 or above in HKDSE 1xBiology) AND (PHYS 1111 OR PHYS 1112 OR PHYS 1312)