Welcome to the Quantum Physics towards biology course page !
Syllabus - Quantum Physics towards Biology!
Topics being discussed in class - The real and biological need for quantum Physics , Photons, Philosophy of uncertainty, Two Slit Experiment , Black Body experiment and the inadequate Classical everyday physics, Shrodinger equation and boundary values in One Dimensional Infinite potential , Quantum Tunneling, Bra-Ket Notation , Integrals in Quantum Mechanics , Expectation values in quantum mechanics .
We will be following a book written by Resnick and Halliday (initially supplemented by Quantum Mechanics Demytefied and later by Berkley Series Volume 4 by Wichman) .
Below is a video by Minute Physics on the Origin of Quantum Physics .... watch it closely as we might do have practical on Black Body Radiation .
Topics being discussed in class - The real and biological need for quantum Physics , Photons, Philosophy of uncertainty, Two Slit Experiment , Black Body experiment and the inadequate Classical everyday physics, Shrodinger equation and boundary values in One Dimensional Infinite potential , Quantum Tunneling, Bra-Ket Notation , Integrals in Quantum Mechanics , Expectation values in quantum mechanics .
We will be following a book written by Resnick and Halliday (initially supplemented by Quantum Mechanics Demytefied and later by Berkley Series Volume 4 by Wichman) .
Below is a video by Minute Physics on the Origin of Quantum Physics .... watch it closely as we might do have practical on Black Body Radiation .
Link to an excellent set of Lectures by Prof.Binney of Oxford on QUantum Physics (truly one of the best available ) http://theopenacademy.com/content/lecture-1-introduction-quantum-mechanics-probability-amplitudes-and-quantum-states
A more detailed Lecture by Luca Turin on " Is Smell a quantum sense " http://www.quantumlah.org/media/video/play.php?id=may2011
A more detailed Lecture by Luca Turin on " Is Smell a quantum sense " http://www.quantumlah.org/media/video/play.php?id=may2011
Our course and will lead to a peak into research \ industrial questions in the debated field of Quantum Biology (Quantum Photosynthesis, Quantum Smell , Quantum Eyesight , Quantum Cognition and Magneto Reception in birds and other animals) . Modern Physics I is a stepping stone for Modern Physics II .