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Fall 2025 Recitation Laboratory Lecture Lower Division
Physics For Life Sciences II builds upon prerequisite knowledge in college level biology, chemistry, and mathematics, as well as on Physics For Life Sciences I, to develop an understanding of how energy, entropy, enthalpy, and Boltzmann distributions affect the dynamics of living systems, of how electric fields and potentials are applied to fluids and membranes, and how the physics of harmonic oscillators, waves, sound, optics, photons, and quantized states are relevant to biological systems and the tools used for their study.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the connection between microscopic phenomena and macroscopic consequences in terms of energy, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics for biological systems.
2Apply simple electrostatic principles to membrane potentials and other biological examples.
3Understand how wave phenomena and quantized states are important for characterizing biomolecules.
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