Schedule -- Peel

You can find an overview of the readings for this class (plus readings I am not assigning) at: Working Content I

Note: This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Reading Assignments are online; note that some of the reading requires that you write a summary and ask a question online in Webassign. This is due 11 PM the previous evening. In addition, Homework is due Friday at 5pm via webassign.

The content column links to slides from the PowerPoint presentation used in class. They will be posted either 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. The files are Adobe PDF files.

 

Physical content of Newton's lawsNewton's 3rd law viscosity and dragForces: Springs, tension, and normal forces Coherent motion: Momentum and Momentum conservation Random motion and diffusion -- Fick's law
Date Class Reading Content Quiz

Week 1

 Recitation: Concept survey Lab: No Lab
1/27 1

1.Introduction to the class

1.1The disciplines: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Math
1.1.1Science as making models

1.1.4What Physics can do for Biologists

1.2 Thinking about Thinking and Knowing

1.2.1 The nature of scientific knowledge

Why is this class different?  
1/29 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

Measurement and Math: Dimensions and Units  
1/31 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, graphs, and vectors  

Week 2

 Recitation: How big is a worm Lab: Survey and Intro
2/3 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

Rate of change and velocity -- instantaneous and average Quiz 1
2/5 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

   
2/7 6 4.1.1 Physical content of Newton's Laws
4.1.1.1 Object egotism
4.1.1.2 Inertia

   

Week 3

 Recitation: Cat and Antelope Lab: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos
2/10 7 4.1.1.3 Interactions
4.1.1.4 Superposition
4.1.1.5 Mass
4.1.1.6 Reciprocity
4.1.2.2.2 System Schema Introduction

  Quiz 2
2/12 8 4.1.2.2 Newton 0
4.1.2.2.1 Free-body diagrams
velocity  
2/14 9 4.1.2.4 Newton's 2nd law 
4.1.2.4.1 Reading the content in Newton's 2nd law 
4.1.2.4.2 Newton 2 as a stepping rule
4.1.2.4.2.1 Newton 2 on a spreadsheet 		SNOW DAY  

Week 4

 Recitation:Thinking about forces for objects and systems Lab: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos
2/17 10 4.1.2.5 Newton's 3rd law 
4.1.2.5.1 Using system schemas for Newton's 3rd law
4.1.2 Formulation of Newton's Laws as foothold principles
4.1.2.1 Quantifying impulse and force 		acceleration  
2/19 11 CATCH UP ON MISSED READINGS
   Quiz 3
2/21 12 4.2 Kinds of Forces
4.2.1 Springs 
4.2.1.1 Realistic springs
 

Week 5

 Recitation: The spring constant of DNA Lab 2: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis.
2/24 13 4.2.1.2 Normal forces
4.2.1.2.1 A simple model of solid matter		 Newton 0 and System Schema Quiz 4
2/26 14 4.2.1.3 Tension forces 
4.2.2 Resistive forces
4.2.2.1 Friction 		What's a force? Newton 2  
2/28 15 4.2.2.2 Viscosity
4.2.2.3 Drag 		Forces: Springs, tension, and normal forces  

Week 6

 Recitation: Motion of a paramecium Lab: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis
3/3 16

4.2.3 Gravitational forces
4.2.3.1 Flat-earth gravity

Springs and Resistive Forces Quiz 5
3/5 17 4.2.3.1.1 Free-fall in flat-earth gravity
4.2.3.3 The gravitational field

Gravity  
3/7 18
MID TERM 1  

Week 7

 Recitation: Electrostatic force and Hydrogen bonds Lab: Observing Brownian motion
3/10 19
Go over midterm  
3/12 20 4.2.4 Electric forces
4.2.4.1 Charge and the structure of matter
4.2.4.2 Polarization 		Electric force and polarization  
3/14 21

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 

Coulomb's law, Electric Field  

Week 8

 Recitation: Electrophoresis Lab: Observing Brownian motion
3/24 22 4.3 Coherent vs. random motion
4.3.1 Linear momentum
4.3.1.1 Restating Newton's 2nd law: momentum
Electric Fields and Momentum Quiz 6
3/26 23 4.3.1.2 Momentum conservation
4.3.2 The role of randomness: Biological implications
4.3.2.1 Diffusion and random walks 		 
3/28 24 4.3.2.2 Fick's law Random Motion and Diffusion  

Week 9

 Recitation: Gas properties and pressure Lab: Observing Brownian motion
3/31 25 5.2 Fluids
5.2.1 Pressure
Basics of fluids: pressure and temperature Quiz 7
4/2 26

7.1 Kinetic theory: the ideal gas law

Gases  
4/4 27 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		 Properties of solids and gels  

Week 10

 Recitation: Diffusion in cells Lab: The competition between Brownian motion and directed forces
4/7 28 3.1.2.3 The gradient: a vector derivative
5.2.2 Archimedes' Principle
5.2.3 Buoyancy 		Buoyancy Quiz 8
4/9 29 5.2.5.2.1 Surface tension
5.2.6 Fluid flow
5.2.6.1 Quantifying fluid flow		 Begin fluids
4/11 30 5.2.6.2 The continuity equation
5.2.6.3 Internal flow -- the HP equation		 Fluid flow -- the HP equation  

Week 11

 Recitation: Fluid flow Lab: The competition between Brownian motion and directed forces
4/14 31 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		   Quiz 9
4/16 32 No reading Review  
4/18 33   MID TERM 2  

Week 12

 Recitation: Energy skate park and collisions Lab: Motion and Work in living systems
4/21 34 6.2 Energy of place -- potential energy
6.2.1 Gravitational potential energy		 Go over midterm / Work and energy  
4/23 35 6.2.2 Spring potential energy
6.2.3 Electric potential energy		 Potential Energy  
4/25 36 6.3 The conservation of mechanical energy
6.3.1 Interpreting mechanical energy graphs
6.3.2 Mechanical energy loss -- thermal energy		 Energy conservation  

Week 13

 Recitation: Protein stability Lab: Motion and Work in living systems
4/28 37 6.3.3 Forces from potential energy
6.4.1 Energy at the sub-molecular level
6.4.2 Atomic and Molecular forces		 Energy and molecular forces Quiz 10
4/30 38 6.4.2.1 Interatomic forces
6.4.2.1.1 The Lennard-Jones Potential
6.4.2.2 Chemical bonding		 Chemical bonds  
5/2 39 5.3 Heat and temperature
5.3.2 Thermal properties of matter
5.3.2.1 Thermal energy and specific heat 		Heat flow  

Week 14

 Recitation: Temperature regulation Lab: Makeup Labs
5/5 40 5.3.2.2 Heat capacity
5.3.2.3 Heat transfer
I-2: Interlude 2: The Micro to Macro Connection 		The 1st law of thermodynamics Quiz 11
5/7 41 7. Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
7.3 The 1st law of thermodynamics		 Entropy  
5/9 42 7.4.1 Why we need a 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
7.4.2 The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: A Probabilistic Law
7.4.3 Implications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics 		The second law  

Week 15

    
5/12 43   Review  

Final Exam

 May 17th 4pm-6pm   
University of Maryland

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Edited by E.F. Redish, A. Peel, and A. Upadhyaya, January 2014