Welcome to the Physics 475 Home Page
Spring 2014
Course Information
Course Schedule and Lecture Notes
Office hours:
2-3 pm Tue, Loomis 271
Homework assigments:
Homework 1
. Due Jan 29, 11:00 am
Solutions
Homework 2
. Due Feb 12, 11:00 am
All 5 pdb files (zipped)
File1
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File2
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File3
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File4
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File5
Solutions
Homework 3
. Due Feb 24, 11:00 am
Solutions
Homework 4
. Due March 5, 11:00 am
Solutions
Homework 5
. Due March 12, 11:00 am
Solutions
Homework
6
. Due April 14, 11:00 am
Solutions
Homework
7
. Due April 14, 11:00 am
Couzin
,
Jelles
,
Solutions
Homework 8
. Due April 21, 11:00 am
Solutions
Homework 9
. Due May 7, 11:00 am
Solutions
Quizzes:
Quiz 1
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solutions
Quiz 2
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solutions
Quiz
3
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solutions
Quiz
4
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solutions
Quiz
5
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solutions
Quiz
6;
solutions
Quiz 7
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solutions
Quiz
8;
solutions
Quiz
9
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solutions
Quiz
10
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solutions
Final paper due May 9.
Guidlines
Last lectures:
Lecture 20 (April 14)
DNA nanotechnology
Read: (for quiz 9 on April 21)
Syntheic biology for nanotechnology
Read: (for quiz 9 on April 21)
The "right" size in nanobiotechnology
Lecture 22 (April 21)
Biological motors in man-made devices
Next Lecture:
Lecture 23 (April 23)
Single molecule biophysics using nanopores
Read (for Quiz 10 on May 5):
Synthetic chromosome
Course textbooks (on reserve in Physics and Grainger libraries):
Essential Cell Biology
, 2nd edition: by Bruce Alberts et al.
Physical Biology of the Cell
by Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev and Julie Theriot
Seminars
Center for the Physics of Living Cells