Course11510500148 lectures
Biophysics
Prof. Amar Nath Gupta · IIT Kharagpur
About
Biophysics: applies the principles of Physics, Chemistry, mathematical analysis and computer modeling to a biological systems to develop the understanding at fundamental level. We start from general principle and work out their consequences and look at the nature of the consequences and analyze. In this course, we shall try learning various key areas of Biophysics, namely, Molecular Biophysics: Understanding the structure & dynamics of DNA and proteins; Cellular Biophysics: Studying the membrane formation and their function; Systems Biophysics: Analyzing complex systems like the nervous system (brain function) and Heart system;Medical Biophysics: Applying physics to diagnose, X-ray, MRI and medical imaging.
Intended audience: UG and PG
Prerequisites: Basic Statistical Physics course
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Biophysics
- Lecture 2: Motivation and Review
- Lecture 3: Molecular Interaction
- Lecture 4: Weak Interaction
- Lecture 5: Special Interaction
Week 2
- Lecture 6: Biological Structures
- Lecture 7: Introduction to Polymers
- Lecture 8: Distribution of end-to-end length of a polymer
- Lecture 9: Random Flight Chain Model
Week 3
- Lecture 10: R(g) and Worm-Like Chain Model
- Lecture 11: Physics of Nucleic Acid
- Lecture 12: Topology of DNA and Genetic Code
- Lecture 13: Physics of Amino Acids
Week 4
- Lecture 14: Physics of Amino Acids Part-II
- Lecture 15: Physics of Amino Acids Part-III
- Lecture 16: Physics of Amino Acids Part-IV
- Lecture 17: Physics of Amino Acids Part-V
Week 5
- Lecture 18: UV-Vis Spectroscopy
- Lecture 19: Laser Light Scattering part I
- Lecture 20: Laser Light Scattering part II
- Lecture 21: Laser Light Scattering part III
Week 6
- Lecture 22: X-Ray Diffraction
- Lecture 23: Fourier Series
- Lecture 24: Fourier Transform
- Lecture 25: Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
Week 7
- Lecture 26: NMR part 1
- Lecture 27: NMR part 2
- Lecture 28: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Lecture 29: Physics of Imaging part 1
Week 8
- Lecture 30: Physics of Imaging part 2
- Lecture 31: Physics of Imaging part 3
- Lecture 32: Ion Transport part 1
- Lecture 33: Ion Transport part 1
Week 9
- Lecture 34: Ion Transport part 3
- Lecture 35: Ion Transport part 4
- Lecture 36: Ion Transport part 5
- Lecture 37: Cellular Electricity 1
Week 10
- Lecture 38: Cellular Electricity 2
- Lecture 39: Cellular Electricity 3
- Lecture 40: Cellular Electricity 4
- Lecture 41: Cellular electric potential
Week 11
- Lecture 42: HH Model 1
- Lecture 43: HH Model 2
- Lecture 44: HH Model 3
- Lecture 45: Noble Model of Heart
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Physics
- Teacher
- Prof. Amar Nath Gupta
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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