Homework 40%, Hour Exam I 20%, Hour Exam II 20%, Final 20%.

Grade Scale:
Graduate students: A >=80%; B>=70%; C>=60
Undergraduate students: A+ >=95%; A >=75%; B>=65%; C>=55%

There will seven problem sets, posted on the course website sometime between Friday and Sunday of respective week (see syllabus). Homeworks are due at the beginning of class on the Friday after they are given out.
Solutions are made available on the web at the beginning of that lecture, so no late homeworks will be accepted. No exceptions. Homeworks will typically be returned within a week.

Power Point or PDF lecture notes will be made available on the website before the lecture. In addition to the lecture notes, any reading assignments, homework sets, homework solutions, and hour exam solutions will be posted on the web.

There has never been a satisfactory textbook for this class. Several have been tried in the past, but always with very limited success. To address the problem we have developed an extensive set of notes and handouts. Although all the information relevant to the course will be included into the notes, if you want to go beyond the material presented in this course, the following are excellent recourses. Most of these will be available in the Biology Library.

The first part of the course heavily draws of the following outstanding texts:
Dill, K. A. & Bromberg, S. “Molecular Driving Forces – Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology (Superb, must read)
Berg, H. C. "Random Walks in Biology" – 1st ed. (1983) or 2nd ed. (1993) ()

Another useful text:
Cantor and Chimmel “Biophysical Chemistry” (all three volumes)

Biophysical methods and techniques will not be extensively discussed unless pertinent for understanding of the presented material. If you are interested in the experimental techniques, you may check:
“ Biophysical Tools for Biologists: Vol.1 In Vitro Techniques” Methods in Cell Biology V. 84 2007 Edited by John Correia and William Detrich

Leonardo:

Time: 5-6 pm, Wednesdays
Venue: Department of Physics, 1110 West Green Street, room 322.

Mohamed:

Time: 5-6 pm, Thursdays
Venue: room 401 at Roger Adams Laboratory building (fourth floor), at the western side of the building.