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Spring 2026 Recitation Laboratory Lecture Lower Division
Physics For Life Sciences I builds upon prerequisite knowledge in college level biology, chemistry, and mathematics to present introductory physics that will be useful for applying physical principles, insights, and problem solving approaches for students with life science majors. Content will feature the Newtonian framework with emphasis on friction, drag and viscosity, random motion and diffusion, fluid flow, the Coulomb force, molecular forces and bonding, momentum, conservation of energy, entropy, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Learning Outcomes1Understand how motion in realistic biological systems (e.g. cells, biomolecules) is governed by forces.
2Understand how molecular binding is described in terms of energy.
3Understand how diffusion is governed on a microscopic level.
4Have insight into how the first and second laws of thermodynamics constrain basic processes in living systems.
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