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An Introductory Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) class developed by the University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group.

TEAM MEMBERS

Edward Redish (he/him)

University of Maryland, College Park

Ben Geller

Swarthmore College

Wolfgang Losert

University of Maryland, College Park

Vashti Sawtelle

Michigan State University

Chandra Turpen

University of Maryland, College Park

Catherine Crouch

Swarthmore College

Dawn Meredith

University of New Hampshire

Mark Reeves

George Washington University

TEAM DETAILS

NEXUS/Physics is an Introductory Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) class designed to

Focus on the development of general scientific competencies such as mathematical modeling and mechanistic reasoning;
Fit effectively into a standard curriculum for biologists and pre-health care students;
Be biologically authentic – help biology students understand important results they learn in their biology and chemistry classes that rely on physics.

Available FREE from Living Physics Portal

200 problems (400 more coming soon!)
Living Physics textbook in pdf and Word
Clicker questions
In-class activities
Articles on Using Math in Physics from The Physics Teacher

Available from commercial partners
Royalties support maintenance of the Living Physics Portal!

Living Physics 1&2 from Top Hat: Interactive e-textbook with integrated auto-graded questions, PhET sims, clicker questions, and authentic biological examples. Based on the NEXUS/Physics Wikibook. tinyurl.com/tophatlivingphysics
Auto-graded problems from Expert TA: Biology-focused problems and pre-health activities including homework problems, in-class group work, and clicker questions. theexpertta.com/nexus-physics

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NEXUS/Physics is an Introductory Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) class designed to
<ul>
<li>Focus on the development of general scientific competencies such as mathematical modeling and mechanistic reasoning;</li>
<li>Fit effectively into a standard curriculum for biologists and pre-health care students;</li>
<li>Be biologically authentic &ndash; help biology students understand important results they learn in their biology and chemistry classes that rely on physics.</li>
</ul>
Available FREE from Living Physics Portal
<ul>
<li><a href="../browse#problems">200 problems</a> (400 more coming soon!)</li>
<li><a href="../details/022a5b95-fd45-41f2-97e9-464799465520">Living Physics textbook</a> in pdf and Word</li>
<li><a href="../details/16c04b15-4722-4fcd-baa1-c449f414c97d/1/1043">Clicker questions</a></li>
<li>In-class activities</li>
<li><a href="../details/3fb2caa2-ab65-444f-8e1b-ad98c6feb041">Articles on Using Math in Physics from The Physics Teacher</a></li>
</ul>
Available from commercial partners Royalties support maintenance of the Living Physics Portal!
<ul>
<li>Living Physics 1&amp;2 from Top Hat: Interactive e-textbook with integrated auto-graded questions, PhET sims, clicker questions, and authentic biological examples. Based on the NEXUS/Physics Wikibook. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/tophatlivingphysics">tinyurl.com/tophatlivingphysics</a></li>
<li>Auto-graded problems from Expert TA: Biology-focused problems and pre-health activities including homework problems, in-class group work, and clicker questions. <a href="http://theexpertta.com/nexus-physics">theexpertta.com/nexus-physics</a></li>
</ul>

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Living Physics textbook - AKA NEXUS Physics Wikibook

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access, Clicker question

an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

Biochemistry, Mechanics of Biomaterials, Fluid Transport, Material Flow, Cardiovascular System, Neurophysiology, Healthy Respiratory Function, Cellular Structure, Emergent Phenomena, Bioenergetics

Fluid Mechanics, Motion in Two Dimensions, Electrostatics, Electric Fields and Potential, Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Geometrical Optics, Diffraction, Interference, Oscillations, Wave Motion, Thermal Properties of Matter, First Law, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Photons, Lasers, Random Walks

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Edward Redish

Ginny Redish

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Living Physics - Vol. 1

Instructor supplement, Restricted access, Student reading

an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

Cellular Structure, Mechanics of Biomaterials, Material Flow, Cardiovascular System, Healthy Respiratory Function, Fluid Transport, Biochemistry, Neurophysiology

Fluid Mechanics, Motion in Two Dimensions, Electrostatics, Thermal Properties of Matter

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Living Physics Vol. 1 - Information for faculty

Instructor supplement, Restricted access

an intro physics text designed for life science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

None

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Living Physics 1 - Introduction for students

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

the introductory chapter for a physics text designed for life science students focusing on the skills they need to develop

None

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Living Physics 2 - Using math in science

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 2 of an intro physics text designed for life science students focusing on the tools for using math in physics

None

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Living Physics 3 - Kinematics

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 3 of an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the basics ideas of kinematics

None

Position & Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Position & Displacement, 2D Velocity, 2D Acceleration

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Living Physics 4 - Newtons laws

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 4 of an intro physics text designed for life-science students introducing Newton's laws of motion

None

Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Applications of Newton's Laws

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Living Physics 5 - Modeling forces

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 5 of an intro physics text designed for life-science students introducing models of various forces for use in Newton's laws

None

Gravity, Friction, Viscosity, Charge, Coulomb's Law

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Living Physics 6 - Coherent vs random motion

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 6 of an intro physics text for life-science students defining momentum and contrasting it with random models of motion and diffusion

None

Force & Acceleration, Kinetic Theory, Mean Free Path, Mean Collision Time, Diffusion

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Living Physics 7 - Solids

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 7 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing states of matter and the response of solids to various forces

Musculoskeletal Injury/Disorders, Cellular Structure, Mechanics of Biomaterials

Statics of Rigid Bodies

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Living Physics 8 - Fluids

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 8 of an intro physics text for life-science students on the properties of fluids including viscous fluid flow

Material Flow, Cardiovascular System, Healthy Respiratory Function, Fluid Transport

Surface Tension, Statics of Fluids, Flow Rate, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity, Equation of Continuity

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Living Physics 9 - Mechanical energy

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 9 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the quantification of the concept of energy, kinetic and potential

Biochemistry, Neurophysiology

Work, Non-Conservative Forces, Conservation of Energy, Conservative Fields

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Living Physics 10 - Chemical energy

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 10 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing chemical energetics from a physics point of view with simple models

None

Medical Physics, Conservation of Energy, Spectra

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Living Physics 11 - Heat and temperature

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 11 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing macroscopic thermodynamics - heat and temperature

None

Thermal Properties of Matter

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Living Physics - Vol. 2

Instructor supplement, Restricted access, Student reading

an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

Emergent Phenomena, Bioenergetics, Cellular Structure

Electric Fields and Potential, Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Geometrical Optics, Diffraction, Interference, Oscillations, Wave Motion, First Law, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Photons, Lasers, Random Walks

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Living Physics Vol. 2 - Information for faculty

Instructor supplement, Restricted access

an intro physics text designed for life science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or health-care careers

None

Vetted

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+ 1 more

Living Physics 12 - Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 12 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing thermodynamics from the point of view of statistical mechanics

Matter/energy Transfer & Transforms, Bioenergetics, Cellular Dynamics

First Law, Probability, Kinetic Theory, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Random Walks, Microstate, Macrostate, Boltzmann Distribution, Equipartition Theorem, Ideal Gas

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Living Physics 13 - Electricity and the electric field

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 13 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts of electric field and potential

Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurophysiology

Electric Field, Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy, Dielectric

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Living Physics 14 - Electric currents

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 14 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts of electric currents

Neurophysiology

Resistance, Ohm's Law, Power and Energy, Circuit Analysis, Currents

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Living Physics 15 - Oscillations

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 15 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts of oscillations

Locomotion and Gait, Healthy Hearing

Pendula, Springs and Oscillators, Hooke's Law, Simple Harmonic Motion, Damped Oscillators, Driven Mechanical Resonance

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Living Physics 16 - Waves in 1D

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 16 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts and mathematics of wave motion in 1D

None

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Living Physics 17 - Light — the ray model

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 17 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing three models of light and describing the ray model in detail

Vision, Optometry

None

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Living Physics 18 - Light — the wave model

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 18 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the wave model of light and including diffraction from 2 slits

Molecular Imaging, DNA and RNA, Cellular Structure

None

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Living Physics 19 - Light — the photon model

Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

chapter 19 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the photon model of light and including many useful applications

Biomedical Imaging, Surgery

None

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Clicker questions for Living Physics

Clicker question

None

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Clicker questions for Living Physics vol 1

Clicker question

A set of short-answer clicker questions for use in the 1st half of an algebra-based IPLS class.

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Motion in One Dimension, Motion in Two Dimensions, Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Applications of Newton's Laws, Gravity, Work and Energy, Linear Momentum, Surface Tension, Thermal Properties of Matter, First Law, Archimedes' Principle, Static Pressure, Measuring Pressure, Density and Buoyancy, Flow Rate, Bernoulli's Principle, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity, Charge, Coulomb's Law, Induced Charge, Equation of Continuity

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Clicker questions for Living Physics vol 2

Clicker question

A set of short-answer clicker questions for use in the 2nd half of an algebra-based IPLS class

Optical Imaging, Temperature Diagnostics, Vision, Hearing, Healthy Neural Function

Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Geometrical Optics, Diffraction, Color, First Law, Kinetic Theory, Diffusion, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Electric Field, Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy, Interference From Two Sources, Photons

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NEXUS Physics Wikibook - old version

Student reading

A free set of readings for a one year IPLS course. Available as a free website.

Cross-cutting Biological Concepts

Motion in One Dimension, Motion in Two Dimensions, Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Applications of Newton's Laws, Work and Energy, Linear Momentum, Electrostatics, Electric Fields and Potential, Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Surface Tension, Statics of Fluids, Geometrical Optics, Interference, Oscillations, Wave Motion, Second and Third Law, Probability, Ensembles, Diffusion

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Using math in physics -- teacher's introduction

Pedagogical essay, Restricted access, Instructor supplement

A set of short papers discussing various strategies to help students learn to use math in physics. Sample teaching materials included.

None

Classical Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Oscillations & Waves, Thermo & Stat Mech, Electricity & Magnetism, Optics, Modern Physics

Vetted

Edward Redish

NEXUS Physics

Diffusion and Random Walk unit

Instructor supplement, Student reading, Lecture materials, In-class activity, Clicker question, Lab, Demonstration, Video, Pre-class assignment, Homework, Exam problem

Provides the basic physics of the critical biological phenomenon of diffusion and random motion.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

Vetted

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

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Diffusion - Instructor Documents

Instructor supplement

Provides the basic physics underlying the critical biological phenomenon of diffusion.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

Vetted

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

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Diffusion - Readings

Student reading

Provides the basic physics underlying the critical biological phenomenon of diffusion.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

Vetted

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

+ 2 more

Diffusion - Lecture Materials

Lecture materials, In-class activity, Clicker question, Lab, Demonstration, Video, Pre-class assignment, Homework, Exam problem, Student reading, Instructor supplement

Provides the basic physics underlying the critical biological phenomenon of diffusion.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

Vetted

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

+ 2 more

Diffusion - Homework Problems

Homework

Students work on how the physics of diffusion plays out in biologically meaningful circumstances.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

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Diffusion - Recitations

In-class activity

Two small group activities on the topic of diffusion and random walk.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

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Diffusion - Laboratories

Lab, Instructor supplement, Student reading

These labs yield a complete exploration of motion in resistive media from directed to random.

Medical Applications, Physical Mechanisms, Cellular Structure, Cross-membrane Transport, Cellular Dynamics

Statistical Physics, Diffusion, Brownian Motion

Vetted

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Edward Redish

Kimberly Moore

+ 2 more

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