Overview
- Provides a complete course for biology and pre-medical students, with exercises, activities, and computational tasks
- Explains concepts from physics and connects them to biology using innovative examples, many inspired by research topics
- Enables easy classroom use with learning goals and competencies for each chapter
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Texts in Physics (UNTEPH)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- biophysics textbook
- physics for life sciences textbook
- physics for premed
- probability for life sciences;
- statistical physics for life sciences
- mechanics for life sciences
- thermodynamics for life sciences;
- mathematical methods for life sciences
- electromagnetism for life sciences
- quantum mechanics for life sciences
- optics for life sciences
- waves for life sciences
About this book
This classroom-tested textbook is an innovative, comprehensive, and forward-looking introductory undergraduate physics course. While it clearly explains physical principles and equips the student with a full range of quantitative tools and methods, the material is firmly grounded in biological relevance and is brought to life with plenty of biological examples throughout.
It is designed to be a self-contained text for a two-semester sequence of introductory physics for biology and premedical students, covering kinematics and Newton’s laws, energy, probability, diffusion, rates of change, statistical mechanics, fluids, vibrations, waves, electromagnetism, and optics.
Each chapter begins with learning goals, and concludes with a summary of core competencies, allowing for seamless incorporation into the classroom. In addition, each chapter is replete with a wide selection of creative and often surprising examples, activities, computational tasks, and exercises, many of which are inspired by current research topics, making cutting-edge biological physics accessible to the student.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Simon Mochrie has been on the faculty at Yale University since 2000 as a Professor Physics and of Applied Physics. For the last decade, his research has focused on the physics of living systems, during which period he also developed and taught the introductory physics for the life sciences course on which this book is based. In 2021, he was awarded Yale’s Dylon Hixon ’88 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences for his teaching of this course.
Claudia De Grandi joined the Physics and Astronomy Department at University of Utah in 2018 as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Educational Practice. One of her main roles is to implement and promote evidence-based teaching pedagogies in introductory physics courses and improve the teaching quality and inclusiveness of physics and STEM courses more broadly. At the University of Utah, as well as previously as a Teaching Postdoctoral Scholar at Yale University, she has been working to reform the Introductory Physics curriculum for Life Sciences majors (pre-medical students and biology majors), both the lecture courses, as well as the laboratory ones. She was awarded the 2021-2022 College of Science Distinguished Educator Award.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences
Authors: Simon Mochrie, Claudia De Grandi
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05808-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05807-3Published: 06 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05808-0Published: 05 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2510-411X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4128
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 847
Number of Illustrations: 299 b/w illustrations, 151 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biological Techniques, Premedical Education, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering