This Fall, Michael Schick will be teaching:

This class will apply elementary concepts of Physics to Biological systems. Among the topics to be considered are random walks, friction, and diffusion, with application to membrane permeability; processes at low Reynolds number, with application to cell motion; elementary thermodynamics with application to osmotic pressure, hydrophobic forces, and the self assembly of lipids, electrostatics, with applications to charges on membranes and DNA,strengths of acids, nerve impulses, Nerst potentials and the Hodgkin-Huxley mechanism, and who knows what else! What is required is basic physics, such as Physics 121, 122, 123, and introductory thermodynamics, such as Physics 224.

Please email Dr. Schick for more information.