PHYS 498

Fall 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 21-Dec 6

Special Topics in Physics

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in physics intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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PHYS 498 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	73027	Lecture-Discussion	EBP	1:00PM -4:50PM	TR	4122 Engineering Sciences Building	Denos, S Kim, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Experimental Biophysics: Physics students in this advanced laboratory course will do 5 experiments that have won Nobel Prizes for their inventors—plus a few more experiments—all related to using physics to understand biology. You do NOT need to know any biology to take the course (but be willing to learn). These will be 1. Optical Trapping (2018); 2. Super-resolution Microscopy (2014); 3. The Luria-Delbruck experimental on fluctuation methods to determine the role of mutations in evolution (1969); 4. The discovery of the 3rd domain of life, Archaea, by U of Illinois Carl Woese (2003, Craaford Prize); 5. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR, 1993); 5. Computational prediction of protein folding (2013, and one shortly!); 6. Electricity in you: Measuring nerve conduction; 7. Optical detection of magnetic imaging using single (quantum) “bits” of diamonds. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.