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PHYS 23400 - Physics For Life Sciences II |
Credit Hours: 4.00. Physics For Life Sciences II builds upon prerequisite knowledge in college level biology, chemistry, and mathematics, as well as on Physics For Life Sciences I, to develop an understanding of how energy, entropy, enthalpy, and Boltzmann distributions affect the dynamics of living systems, of how electric fields and potentials are applied to fluids and membranes, and how the physics of harmonic oscillators, waves, sound, optics, photons, and quantized states are relevant to biological systems and the tools used for their study.
0.000 OR 4.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture, Recitation All Sections for this Course Offered By: College of Science Department: Physics and Astronomy Course Attributes: Lower Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the connection between microscopic phenomena and macroscopic consequences in terms of energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics for biological systems. 2. Apply simple electrostatic principles to membrane potentials and other biological examples. 3. Understand how wave phenomena and quantized states are important for characterizing biomolecules. |