Saturday, July 25, 2009

Teaching biological physics

Preparing to teach PHYS3170 Intermediate Biophysics I have been looking at some material on Phillip Nelson's website. He is author of one of the nicest texts, Biological Physics: Energy, Information, and Life.

Several things particularly worth looking at are:

Teaching biological physics, an article in Physics Today.

A course on physical models for biological systems, a talk to the Biophysical Society.
(the syllabus of the actual course is here).

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