PHYS 323Biophysics

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Biophysics is an interdisciplinary subject that applies physics principles to biological systems. Topics selected from diffusion, ligand binding and the Boltzmann factor, osmosis, single-file diffusion, ion channels, aquaporins, solute blocking and ideal solution thermodynamics, entropy and the second law, kinetic theory of gases, Sturm-Liouville problems, equilibrium distributions and entropy, random walks and diffusion, partitioning and membrane permeation. Computational methods including finite-difference methods, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, and Monte Carlo simulations. Topics from thermal and statistical physics.