Lecture Material

Here Links to an external site. is a zip file for many of the python examples given in the lectures not in the homework problems

Lecture 1: Tues 4/2/2019

• Introduction and course description.
• Xray crystallography

Lecture 2-3: Thurs 4/4/2019, Tues 4/9/2019

• Xray crystallography
• Fourier Transforms
• Python scripts used Download Python scripts used
• Phases in x-ray diffraction image reconstruction.
• Tomography

Lecture 4-5: Thurs 4/11, Tues 4/16/2019

• Tomography
• NMR
• Reference material for Random walks and diffusion Links to an external site.

Lecture 6: Thurs 4/18/2019

• Quiz 1
• More on Random walks and diffusion Links to an external site. including the physics of chemoreception.

Lecture 7: Tues 4/23

• Tuesday's lecture presentation: http://prezi.com/q70fmsip7vce/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Links to an external site.
• Pattern Formation
• Development

Lecture 8: Thurs 4/25

• Continuation of lecture presentation: http://prezi.com/q70fmsip7vce/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Links to an external site.
• Dendritic growth, Diffusion limited aggregation, and Fractals: http://prezi.com/guij0fcn54kf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Links to an external site.

Lecture 9: Tues 4/30

• Optical Tweezers

Lecture 10: Thurs 5/2

• Quiz 2
• Time Dependent Effects

Lecture 11: Tues 5/7

• Improving signal to noise in optical tweezer experiments.
• Diffusion in external potentials Links to an external site.
• Electrophoresis part 1

Lecture 12: Thurs 5/9

• Electrophoresis part 2.
• Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Links to an external site.

Lecture 13: Tues 5/14/2019

• Polymer physics crash lecture Links to an external site.
• Translocation Links to an external site.

Lecture 14-15: Thurs, Tues 5/16, 5/21

• Helix coil transitions and proteins
• Berkeley Biophysics lectures on proteins Links to an external site.

Lecture 16-17: Thurs 5/23, Tues 5/28

• Quiz Thurs
• Cytoplasmic streaming (under "Development" here)
• http://deutsch.physics.ucsc.edu/MTsim_videos/
• Molecular motors
• Simple motor simulation

Lecture 18-19: Thurs 5/30/2019, Tues 6/4/2019

• Electrolyte theory Links to an external site. ,  Electrostatics in proteins 
• Neurons, Membrane potentials and the Hodgkin Huxley Equations.
• Hodgkin Huxley model An optional homework problem