Schedule -- Buehrle

Notes:

  • This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
  • Reading Assignments are online; reading questions in WebAssign are due 11 PM the evening before the lecture.
    WebAssign Assignments are due Friday at 5PM. The paper homework is due AT THE BEGINNING OF the last class of the week.
  • Attend recitation and lab during the first week of class to do our survey, download the software for the labs, and meet the prof.
  • The content column links to slides from the PowerPoint presentation used in class. They will be posted on the version of this page in Canvas after the class takes place. Note that these slides only represent a skeleton of the presentation and do not include solutions to problems and questions posed, derivations, or representations of class discussions. If you miss a class, these notes do not suffice to fill you in on what happened! Be sure to check with someone who actually attended.
Date Class Reading Content Quiz

Week 1

 Recitation: How big is a worm? Surveys and Lab 0:
Intro and setup
8/30 1

1. Introduction to the class
1.1 The disciplines: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Math
1.1.1 Science as making models
1.1.4 What Physics can do for Biologists
1.2 Thinking about Thinking and Knowing
1.2.1 The nature of scientific knowledge
1.2.3 Knowing-how-we-know icons

Why are you here?  
9/1 2

2. Modeling with mathematics
2.1 Using math in science
2.1.1 How math in science is different from math in math
2.1.2 Measurement
2.1.3 Dimensions and units
2.1.3.1 Complex dimensions and dimensional analysis
2.1.3.2 Changing units
2.1.4 Estimation
2.1.4.1 Useful numbers
2.2.3 The idea of algebra: unknowns and relationships
2.2.3.1 Symbols in science

 Modeling, dimensions  

Week 2

 Recitation: No recitation Lab: no lab
9/6 3 I-1 Interlude 1: The Main Question: How do things move?
3 Kinematics: Where and When?
3.1.1 Coordinates
3.1.2 Vectors
3.1.3 Time
3.1.4 Kinematics Graphs
Coordinates and vectors Quiz 1
9/8 4

2.2.5 Values, change, and rates of change
2.2.5.1 Derivatives
2.2.5.1.1 What is a derivative, anyway?

3.2 Kinematic Variables
3.2.1 Velocity
3.2.1.1 Average velocity
3.2.1.2 Instantaneous velocity
3.2.1.3 Calculating with average velocity

 Rates of change & velocity  

Week 3

 Recitation: Cat and Antelope Lab 1.1: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos
9/13 5 3.2.2 Acceleration
3.2.2.1 Average acceleration
3.2.2.2 Instantaneous acceleration
3.2.2.3 Calculating with constant acceleration
3.2.3 Kinematics graphs and consistency
3.2.3.1 Reading the content in the kinematic equations
 Acceleration Quiz 2
9/15 6 4.1.1 Physical content of Newton's Laws
4.1.1.1 Object egotism
4.1.1.2 Inertia
4.1.1.3 Interactions
4.1.1.4 Superposition
4.1.1.5 Mass
4.1.1.6 Reciprocity


4.1.2 Formulation of Newton's Laws as foothold principles
4.1.2.1 Quantifying impulse and force
4.1.2.2 Newton's 0th Law
4.1.2.2.1 Free-body diagrams
4.1.2.2.2 System Schema Introduction

Intro to Newton's Laws  

Week 4

 Recitation:Thinking about forces for objects and systems Lab 1.2: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos
9/20 7

4.1.2.3 Newton's 1st law
4.1.2.4 Newton's 2nd law
4.1.2.4.1 Reading the content in Newton's 2nd law 

Newton 1 and 2 Quiz 3
9/22 8 4.1.2.5 Newton's 3rd law 
4.1.2.5.1 Using system schemas for Newton's 3rd law
4.1.2.5.1 Center of mass
Newton 3

Week 5

 Recitation: The spring constant of DNA Lab 2.1: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis
9/27 9

4.2 Kinds of Forces
4.2.1 Springs 
4.2.1.1 Realistic springs
4.2.1.2 Normal forces
4.2.1.2.1 A simple model of solid matter
4.2.1.3 Tension forces

Springs and normal force Quiz 4
9/29 10 4.2.2 Resistive forces
4.2.2.1 Friction
4.2.2.2 Viscosity
4.2.2.3 Drag

Resistive forces

  

Week 6

 Recitation: Propelling a paramecium Lab 2.2: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis
10/4 11 4.2.3 Gravitational forces
4.2.3.1 Flat-earth gravity
4.2.3.1.1 Free-fall in flat-earth gravity
4.2.3.3 The gravitational field 		Gravity Quiz 5
10/6 13

4.2.4 Electric forces
4.2.4.1 Charge and the structure of matter
4.2.4.2 Polarization

Electric forces  

Week 7

 Recitation: Electric force and Hydrogen bonding Lab 3.1: Observing Brownian motion
10/11 12 MIDTERM 1 (on lectures 1-10)
10/13 14

3.1.2.1 Adding Vectors
3.1.2.1.1 Example: vector addition
3.1.2.1.2 Example: vector subtraction

4.2.4.3 Coulomb's law 
4.2.4.3.1 Coulomb's law -- vector character
4.2.4.3.2 Reading the content in Coulomb's law
4.2.4.4 The Electric field 

Electric forces and electric field  

Week 8

 Recitation: Electrophoresis Lab 3.2: Observing Brownian motion
10/18 15

4.3 Coherent vs. random motion
4.3.1 Linear momentum
4.3.1.1 Restating Newton's 2nd law: momentum
4.3.1.2 Momentum conservation


Momentum		  
10/20 16

4.3.2 The role of randomness: Biological implications
4.3.3 Diffusion and random walks
4.3.3.1 Fick's law
4.3.3.1.1 Reading the content in Fick's first law

 Random motion and diffusion

Week 9

 Recitation: Cell polarization and activation Lab 3.3: Observing Brownian motion
10/25 17

5. Macro models of matter
5.1.1 Density-solids
5.1.2 Young's modulus
5.1.6 Soft matter
5.1.6.1 Mechanical properties of cells

 Solids Quiz 6
10/27 18

5.2 Fluids
5.2.1 Pressure
I-2: Interlude 2: The Micro to Macro Connection
7.1 Kinetic theory: the ideal gas law

Fluids and kinetic theory  

Week 10

 Recitation: Gas properties and pressure Lab 4.1: The competition between Brownian motion and directed forces
11/1 19

5.2.2 Archimedes' Principle
5.2.3 Buoyancy
5.2.5.2.1 Surface tension

 Buoyancy and surface tension Quiz 7
11/3 20 5.2.6 Fluid flow
5.2.6.1 Quantifying fluid flow
5.2.6.2 The continuity equation
5.2.6.3 Internal flow -- the HP equation		 Fluid flow

Week 11

 Recitation: Fluid flow Lab 4.2: The competition between Brownian motion and directed forces
11/10 21 6. Energy: The Quantity of Motion
6.1 Kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem
6.1.1 Reading the content in the Work-Energy theorem		 Work and energy Quiz 8
11/10 22 MIDTERM 2 (cumulative, focusing on lectures 11-20)

Week 12

 Recitation: Energy skate park Lab 5.1: Motion and Work in living systems
11/15 23 6.2 Energy of place -- potential energy
6.2.1 Gravitational potential energy
6.2.2 Spring potential energy
6.2.3 Electric potential energy		 Potential energy  
11/17 24 6.3 The conservation of mechanical energy
6.3.1 Interpreting mechanical energy graphs
6.3.2 Mechanical energy loss -- thermal energy

6.3.3 Forces from potential energy

 Conservation of energy  

Week 13

 No Recitation No Lab
11/22 25 6.4.1 Energy at the sub-molecular level
6.4.2 Atomic and Molecular forces
6.4.2.1 Interatomic forces
6.4.2.1.1 The Lennard-Jones Potential
6.4.2.2 Chemical bonding		 Chemical energy Quiz 9

Week 14

 Recitation: Protein folding Lab 5.2: Motion and Work in living systems
11/29 26 6.5 Energy in fluid flow
6.5.1 Bernoulli's principle

5.3 Heat and temperature
5.3.2 Thermal properties of matter
5.3.2.1 Thermal energy and specific heat
5.3.2.2 Heat capacity
5.3.2.3 Heat transfer

Heat and temperature

  Quiz 10
12/1 27 7. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
7.2 The 1st law of thermodynamics		 The 1st law of thermodynamics

Week 15

  Recitation: Temperature regulation  Lab: Makeup Labs and survey
12/6 28 7.3 The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
7.3.1 The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: A Probabilistic Law
7.3.2 Implications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics 		The 2nd law of thermodynamics Quiz 11 
12/8 29 No reading Review  

Final Exam

 Wednesday, December 16, 6:30-8:30 pm  
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