PHYS 323 BIOPHYSICS
Biophysics is an inherently interdisciplinary subject that applies physical principles to biological systems. It is an introduction to the use of physics methods, mathematics, and modeling in biological systems. Topics include osmosis, ligand binding and least-squares fits, diffusion including Sturm–Liouville problems using finite-difference computational methods, equilibrium distributions and entropy, energy and the Boltzmann factor, how random walks cause diffusion and how transmembrane proteins are responsible for the membrane voltage and how they can be modeled by equivalent circuits in all living cells and in the excitable cells of the human nervous system.