BPHY 304 — Biophysics and Bio-imaging
Imagine a day when Life is fully understood and a cure is found for every disease. Is this only a dream? Leading biologists and medical researchers now believe this may someday be achieved. How? With help from a new generation of scientists and medical practitioners who are better trained to understand living systems in a mechanistic way, that is, how these systems follow precise principles of chemistry and physics. The focus of our Biophysics major at Centenary College is to provide you with this training.
Undergraduate biology students who become comfortable with the ideas of mathematics and physical sciences from the start of their education will be better positioned to contribute to future discoveries in biomedical research.
—From the preface to BIO2010, a report published in 2003 by the National Research Council at the request of the National Institutes if Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- You can download individual chapters:
- Animal Locomotion
- Fluid Mechaniscs of the Circulatory System
- Wave Phenomena in Hearing
- Heating and Cooling of the Body
- Optics in Vision and Eyesight Correction
- Light Absorption and Color in Biomolecules
- The Behavior of Photoexcited Biomolecules
- Statistical Mechanics in Biology
- Experimental Determination of Protein Structure
- Nerve Conduction
The physics of walking
Blood flow: fluid flow through a pipe
Hearing range, decibels and loudness, resonance of the ear canal, and spectrum of speech
Heat dissipation from the body: radiant heat, evaporative cooling, and heat conduction
Absorption of light by bio-molecules
Emission properties of bio-molecules
Energy transfer in photosynthesis
Magnetic Resonance Imaging