PHYS 572 Biological Physics II

Offered: Spring 2024

Course Description: PHYS 572 is a new course designed for graduate students who want to start their research in the field of biophysics. The course will cover theoretical and computational concepts and methodologies used in the field.

PHYS 215 Computational and Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences

Offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, , Spring 2018, Fall 2017

Course Description: PHYS 215 will cover numerical and mathematical methods for physical sciences, introduction to programming languages, and analysis of algorithms. The course consists of lectures and lab components. Students are expected to learn numerical methods for solving physics problems, understand the advantages and limitations of numerical techniques, and to write implementations for common numerical methods in programming code. No previous experience with computational methods or programming languages is required; an introduction to Python will be given for completion of the computational assignments. Short list of topics explored: Fitting and Interpolation, Fourier Transforms, Numerical Integration & Differentiation, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations.

This course consists of four hour/week of lectures & discussions and two hours/week of “computational lab”. Students are required to attend the lectures and labs and finish all the lab assignments to complete the course. We will use Python to run computational exercises.

PHYS 132 Introductory Physics for Life Sciences II

Offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2020

Course Description: PHYS 132 is an algebra-based course which explores the implications of physics and physical concepts to the life sciences. In this course you will learn about the applications to molecular, cell and human biology of the fields of electromagnetism, optical, quantum, and thermal physics. There is no required textbook for this course. We have instead prepared our own reading material on the topics of the course.

PHYS 461 Thermal and Statistical Physics

Offered: Fall 2021

Course Description: PHYS 461 will focus on the basic concepts of thermodynamics and statistical physics. The relevance of these concepts to condensed matter physics is also discussed. This one semester course will cover the first six chapters of “Statistical and Thermal Physics” by H. Gould and J. Tobochnik.

PHYS 491 Special Topics: Computational Biophysics

Offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2015

PHYS 107

Offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2018, Spring 2019

PHYS 141 General Physics I

Offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2017