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 3/30/2021
- Introduction and course description.
- Xray crystallography
Lecture 2-3: Thurs 4/1/2021, Tues 4/6/2021
- Xray crystallography
- Fourier Transforms
- Python scripts used Download Python scripts used
- Phases in x-ray diffraction image reconstruction.
- Tomography
Lecture 4-5: Thurs 4/8, Tues 4/13/2021
- Tomography
- Reference material for Random walks and diffusion Links to an external site.
Lecture 6: Thurs 4/15/2021
- More on Random walks and diffusion Links to an external site. including the physics of chemoreception.
Lecture 7: Tues 4/20/2021
- 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 4/22/2021
- 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 4/27/2021
Lecture 10: Thurs 4/29/2021
Lecture 11: Tues 5/4
- Improving signal to noise in optical tweezer experiments.
- Diffusion in external potentials Links to an external site.
- Electrophoresis part 1
Lecture 12: Thurs 5/6
Lecture 13: Tues 5/11/2021
Lecture 14-15: Thurs, Tues 5/13, 5/18
- Helix coil transitions and proteins
- Berkeley Biophysics lectures on proteins Links to an external site.
Lecture 16-17: Thurs 5/20, Tues 5/25
- Cytoplasmic streaming (under "Development" here)
- http://deutsch.physics.ucsc.edu/MTsim_videos/
- Molecular motors
- Simple motor simulation
Lecture 18-19: Thurs 5/27/2021, Tues 6/1/2021
- 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