Physics 174: Related Links

Course Related Links

• Sakai
• Duke Community Standard. Full DCS guide is available here.
• Duke Physics Department.
• Short-term Illness Notification. Use one of these forms to inform Duke and me that you are ill and so will miss a class or fail to hand in some assignment on time.
• 2011-2012 academic calendar

References

• Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th Edition by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter (Garland Science, 2002). The authors kindly made their 4th edition available for free via the Internet, a great resource for this class.

• WolframAlpha, powerful free web program that knows about many physical parameters and scientific data, that can answer informal questions posed in English, and that can evaluate complex numerical and symbolic expressions. Look at the Examples webpage to get a feeling for how to use WolframAlpha, also take the tutorial.

Journals

• arXiv Quantitative Biology preprint database.
• Biophysics Journal.
• Cell.
• Journal of Biological Physics.
• Journal of Theoretical Biology.
• Nature.
• Neuron
• Physical Review Letters.
• Physical Review E.
• Physics in Medicine and Biology
• Physics Today.
• PLoS Computational Biology.
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
• Science.
• Scientific American.
• Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

Miscellaneous:

• American Physical Society.
• Duke Network Analysis Center, for researchers interested in networks.
• Nobel Prizes (many related to biophysics):
  • Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
  • Nobel Prizes in Medicine.
  • Nobel Prizes in Physics.
• Physics Update
• Physics Viewpoints.
• Local Science museums:
  • Morehead Planetarium and Science Museum at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC.