Difference between revisions of "Biophysics"

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* Fluid dynamics. Life at low Reynolds numbers, reversibility of the equations of motion. Computation of the drag force for simple geometries (sphere).
 
* Fluid dynamics. Life at low Reynolds numbers, reversibility of the equations of motion. Computation of the drag force for simple geometries (sphere).
 
* Diffusion equation.
 
* Diffusion equation.
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== Resources ==
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* Part 3 Reflections by 2009 Students: [[Media:Part_3_reflections.pdf‎|View]]
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* [[Web Pages]]
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* [[Documents]]

Revision as of 18:30, 8 November 2010

Some topics and questions that were asked in the past:

  • Statistics of the number bacteria surviving antibiotic selection through the appearance of benefitial mutations.
  • Notion of effective temperature for the expression level of a gene in a network.
  • Random walk models of bacterial chemotaxis.
  • Models of microtubules growth.
  • Models of molecular motors.
  • Thermodynamics of a DNA zipper.
  • Thermodynamics of polymers. Notion of persistence length.
  • Random Energy Model for protein structure.
  • Energy and forces involved in DNA packing.
  • Fluid dynamics. Life at low Reynolds numbers, reversibility of the equations of motion. Computation of the drag force for simple geometries (sphere).
  • Diffusion equation.


Resources