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NEXUS Physics
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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
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- 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
CONTRIBUTIONS
Photons in biology
In-class activity, Homework, Restricted accessAnswering questions about light frequencies in jellyfish and xray lines emitted from tungsten
Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Spectra, Absorption
Proteins
Edward Redish
NEXUS Physics
Photon transitions
In-class activity, Homework, Restricted accessAnswering questions about energy level transitions of an atom
Atomic Physics, Absorption
None
Edward Redish
NEXUS Physics
Fluorescence examples
In-class activity, Homework, Restricted accessFinding the change in energy of light due to fluorescence
Synthesis and Analysis of Color
Proteins, Molecular Imaging
Edward Redish
NEXUS Physics
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