Week 1 |
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Quiz 0 |
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7.2.3 Thermodynamic equilibrium and equipartition
7.2.4
Example: Degrees of freedom
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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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7.2.1
Organizing the idea of energy
7.2.2
Enthalpy
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Quiz 1 |
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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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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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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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Quiz 2 |
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7.3.3
Motivating free energy
7.3.3.1
Gibbs 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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HW 2 |
Week 4 |
Recitation: What's "free" about free
energy?
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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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Quiz 3 |
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8.1
The Electric field
8.1.2
Making sense of the idea of field |
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No new reading |
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HW 3 |
Week 5 |
Recitation: Insane
in the membrane, 1: Lipid bilayers
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Lab 7.1:
Electric forces in a fluid I
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8.2
The electric 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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8.4.1
Two parallel sheets of charge
8.4.2
The capacitor |
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HW 4 |
Week 6 |
Recitation: Insane in the membrane, 2: Lipid bilayers
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Lab 7.2:
Electric forces in a fluid II |
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8.3.3
Dielectric constant
8.5.5
Electrical energy and power
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Quiz 5 |
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8.3.1
Screening of electrical interactions in salt solution
8.3.1.1
Debye length |
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University closed due to wind |
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Week 7 |
Recitation:
Introduction to circuits
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Lab 8.1: Signal transmission along nerve axons I |
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8.5.1
Quantifying electric current
8.5.2
Resistive electric flow: Ohm's law |
MIDTERM 1 |
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8.3.2
Nernst potential |
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8.5.3
Ways to think about current: A toolbox of models
8.5.4 Kirchhoff's principles
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HW
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Week 8 |
Recitation:
Salting out and denaturing DNA
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Lab 8.2: Signal transmission along nerve axons II |
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8.5.4.1
Example: Resistors in series
8.5.4.2
Example: Resistors in parallel
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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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9.
Oscillations and waves
9.1
Harmonic oscillation
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HW
6
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Week 9 |
Recitation:
Introduction to light
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Lab 9.1: Introducing
geometrical optics I |
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9.1.1
Mass on a spring
9.1.1.1
Hanging mass on a spring
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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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9.1.2
Damped oscillators
9.1.3
Driven oscillators: resonance
9.1.5
Quantum oscillators -- discrete states
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HW
7
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Week 10 |
Recitation:
Diatomic vibrations
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Lab 9.2: Introducing
geometrical optics II
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9.2
Waves in 1D
9.2.1
Waves on an elastic string
9.2.2
Wave pulses |
Quiz 8 |
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9.2.2.1
Propagating a wave pulse - the math
9.2.3
Wave speed |
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9.2.4
Superposition of waves in 1D
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HW
8
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Week 11 |
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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9.2.5
Sinusoidal waves
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Quiz 9 |
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9.2.4.1 Beats
9.2.4.2 Standing waves |
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9.2.6 Summing different wavelengths -- spectral analysis |
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HW
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Week 12 |
Recitation:
Seeing inside the body
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Lab 10.2: Analyzing light spectra: Implications for living
systems II |
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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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Quiz 10 |
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10.1.1
Basic principles of the ray model
10.1.2
Flat mirrors |
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MIDTERM
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Week 13 |
Recitation:
Photosynthesis
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Lab 11: Exploring complex absorption and emission in molecules |
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10.1.3
Curved mirrors
10.1.3.1
Curved mirror equations
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Quiz 11
Go over midterm |
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10.1.4
Lenses
10.1.4.1
Lens equations |
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HW
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Week 14 |
Recitation:
Why do we see in the visible?
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Makeup labs and closing surveys |
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10.2.1
Electromagnetic radiation and Maxwell's rainbow
10.2.2
Huygens' principle and the wave model
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10.2.2.1
The math of Huygens' principle
10.2.3
Two-slit interference
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Quiz 12 |
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10.2.4
Diffraction
10.2.4.1
Interference from two wide slits
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Week 15 |
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10.3.1.1
Reconciling the wave and photon model - sort of
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HW
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Graded math survey |
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Exam Week |
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Time: 6:30-8:30 |
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FINAL EXAM
Toolbelt |
Location: Skinner 0200
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