Week 1 |
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Introduction to the class
and review of 131 |
Quiz 0 |
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6.4.2.1
Interatomic forces
6.4.2.2.
Chemical bonding
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Energy and chemical bonds:
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Week 2 |
Recitation:
How a kinesin walks
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Intro to labs and peer grading, surveys |
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3 |
7.2.1
Organizing the idea of energy
7.2.2
Enthalpy
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Energy and enthalpy
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Quiz 1 |
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4 |
7.3.1
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: A Probabilistic Law
7.3.2
Implications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Entropy
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Entropy
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5 |
7.3.2.1
Why entropy is logarithmic
7.3.2.3
A way to think about entropy -- sharing
7.3.2.3.1-Example: Arranging energy and entropy |
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Entropy: Examples
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HW 1 |
Week 3 |
Recitation:
Entropy and diffusion
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Lab 6.1:
Modeling fluid flow I |
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7.3.2.2 Biological consequences of the 2nd Law
7.3.2.4
Example: Entropy and heat flow
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The 2nd law of thermodynamics
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Quiz 2 |
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7 |
7.3.3
Motivating free energy
7.3.3.1
Gibbs free energy |
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Free energy
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7.3.3.1.1 Example: Free energy of an expanding gas
7.3.4 How energy is distributed: Fluctuations
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Energy and enthalpy
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HW 2 |
Week 4 |
Recitation: Insane in the membrane, 1: Oil & water
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Lab 6.2:
Modeling fluid flow II
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2.2.4.2
Powers and exponents
7.3.4.1
Boltzmann distribution
7.3.4.2
Boltzmann distribution and Gibbs free energy
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Free energy
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Quiz 3 |
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10 |
8.1
The Electric field
8.1.2
Making sense of the idea of field |
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The Boltzmann distribution, fluctuations,
and entropy
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11 |
No new reading |
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Recap: Electric charge, force,
and energy: Electric fields
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HW 3 |
Week 5 |
Recitation: Recitation: Insane
in the membrane, 2: Lipid bilayers
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Lab 7.1:
Electric forces in a fluid I
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12 |
8.2
The electric potential
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Electrostatic potential
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Quiz 4 |
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8.2.1
Motivating simple electric models
8.2.1.1
A simple electric model: a line charge
8.2.1.2
A simple electric model: a sheet of charge |
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Electrostatic potential: examples
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8.4.1
Two parallel sheets of charge
8.4.2
The capacitor |
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Charged lines and sheets
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HW 4 |
Week 6 |
Recitation:
Introduction to circuits
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Lab 7.2:
Electric forces in a fluid II |
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15 |
8.3.3
Dielectric constant
8.5.5
Electrical energy and power
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Capacitors
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Quiz 5 |
| 3/1 |
16 |
8.3.1
Screening of electrical interactions in salt solution 8.3.1.1
Debye length |
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Dielectric constant, Electric fields
in fluids
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17 |
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MIDTERM 1 |
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Week 7 |
Recitation:
What's "free" about free energy?
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Lab 8.1: Signal transmission along nerve axons I |
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18 |
8.3.2
Nernst potential
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Nernst potential
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19 |
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Go
over midterm |
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20 |
8.5.1
Quantifying electric current
8.5.2
Resistive electric flow: Ohm's law
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Moving charge, electric current
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HW 5 |
Week 8 |
Recitation:
Introduction to light
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Lab 8.2: Signal transmission along nerve axons II |
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8.5.3
Ways to think about current: A toolbox of models 8.5.4
Kirchhoff's principles
8.5.4.1
Example: Resistors in series
8.5.4.2
Example: Resistors in parallel
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Kirchhoff's
principles
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Quiz 6 |
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8.5.4.3
Example: Batteries in series and parallel
8.5.4.4
Example: A complex network
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Electric circuit examples
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9.
Oscillations and waves
9.1
Harmonic oscillation
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Complex electric circuit examples
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HW 6 |
Week 9 |
Recitation:
Salting out and denaturing DNA
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Lab 9.1: Introducing
geometrical optics I |
| 3/27 |
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9.1.1
Mass on a spring
9.1.1.1
Hanging mass on a spring
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Oscillating systems: Examples
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Quiz 7 |
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9.1.1.2
The pendulum
9.1.1.4
Example: Oscillator graphs
9.1.1.5
Example: Oscillator calculations |
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Harmonic oscillation: Force, kinematics,
and energy
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9.1.2
Damped oscillators
9.1.3
Driven oscillators: resonance
9.1.5
Quantum oscillators -- discrete states
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Harmonic oscillator: Examples
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HW 7 |
Week 10 |
Recitation:
Diatomic vibrations
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Lab 9.2: Introducing
geometrical optics II
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27 |
9.2
Waves in 1D
9.2.1
Waves on an elastic string
9.2.2
Wave pulses |
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Waves in 1D: pulses
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Quiz 8 |
| 4/5 |
28 |
9.2.2.1
Propagating a wave pulse - the math
9.2.3
Wave speed |
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Wave speed
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29 |
9.2.4
Superposition of waves in 1D
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Superposition
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HW 8 |
Week 11 |
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30 |
9.2.5
Sinusoidal waves
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Sinusoidal waves
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Quiz 9 |
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31 |
9.2.4.1 Beats
9.2.4.2 Standing waves |
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Standing waves
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9.2.6 Summing different wavelengths -- spectral analysis |
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Fourier analysis
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HW 9 |
Week 12 |
Recitation: Spectroscopy - How does light interact
with matter?
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Lab 10.1: Analyzing light spectra: Implications for living
systems I |
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33 |
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Three models of light
10.3
The photon model of light
10.3.1
Basic principles of the photon model
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The photon model of light
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Quiz 10 |
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34 |
10.1.1
Basic principles of the ray model
10.1.2
Flat mirrors |
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The ray model of light: Mirrors
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35 |
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MIDTERM
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Week 13 |
Recitation:
Seeing inside the body
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Lab 10.2: Analyzing light spectra: Implications for living
systems II |
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36 |
10.1.3
Curved mirrors 10.1.3.1
Curved mirror equations
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Curved mirrors & lenses
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37 |
10.1.4
Lenses
10.1.4.1
Lens equations
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Lenses
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38 |
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Go over midterm |
HW 10 |
Week 14 |
Recitation:
Photosynthesis
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Lab 11: Exploring complex absorption and emission in molecules |
| 5/1 |
39 |
10.2.1
Electromagnetic radiation and Maxwell's rainbow
10.2.2
Huygens' principle and the wave model
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The wave model of light
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| 5/3 |
40 |
10.2.2.1
The math of Huygens' principle
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Huygen's principle
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Quiz 11 |
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41 |
10.2.3
Two-slit interference
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Interference
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Week 15 |
Recitation:
Why do we see in the visible?
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Makeup labs and closing surveys |
| 5/8 |
42 |
10.2.4
Diffraction
10.2.4.1
Interference from two wide slits
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Diffraction
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HW
11 |
| 5/10 |
43 |
10.3.1.1
Reconciling the wave and photon model - sort of
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Waves and photons
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Exam Week |
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| 5/16 |
Time: |
6:30-8:30 PM |
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FINAL EXAM
Toolbelt |
Location:HJPatterson 0226
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