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Physics 173/BGGN 266

Overview of the Course
(Report on years 1 to 5; 0.5Mb PDF)

This laboratory course consists of "table-top" experiments in biological physics, biophotonics, nuclear magnetic resonance, and soft condenced matter physics.

The experiments in this course have been funded through internal UCSD sources, donations from various UCSD research laboratories, grants from the NSF (PHY and IGERT) the HHMI/NIBIB.

Course Schedule

The class meets Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM during the Spring Quarter in room 2126 Warren Lecture Hall. There are 6 tutorials, each of which lasts about one hour. Three tutorials are in optics and microscopy, one is in electrical measurement, and two are in spectral analysis. The optics tutorials are associated with formal exercises. On all non-tutorial days, the period from 1:00 PM to 1:40 PM consists of student presentations and round-table discussions.

Exercises

Optics and Optical Bench Design

Matrix Methods Lecture Handout:    (3Mb PDF).  
Lab Manual - Basics:    (0.1Mb PDF).  
Lab Manual - Laser Scanning Microscopy:    (0.1Mb PDF).  
Lab Manual - Brightfield Microscopy:    (0.5Mb PDF).  

Electronics

Primer on OpAmp Basics:    (1.2Mb PDF).  
Primer on Filters and Modularity:    (2.1Mb PDF).  
Primer on Nonlinear OpAmp Circuits:    (0.2Mb PDF).  

Spectral Methods in Data Analysis

Basics:    (1.1Mb PDF).  
Applications:    (3.2Mb PDF).  
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Experiments
(handouts and a subset of past reports)

Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction

Reprint:   (0.7Mb PDF)
Past Reports:    (2003; 0.3Mb PDF)    (2006; 0.3Mb PDF).

Bioluminescence

Publications:   (2.7Mb PDF)   (0.4Mb PDF).

Chaotic Circuits

Past Reports:   (2003; 0.7Mb PDF)   (2006; 1.0Mb PDF)
  (2008; 1.0Mb PDF).

Coherent Light Scattering

Past Reports:   (2002; 0.3Mb PDF)   (2003; 1.0Mb PDF)
Software:  (0.1Mb G code).

Continuous Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (discontinued)

Past Report:    (2002; 2.0Mb PDF).

Electrophysiology with Leech Neurons

Past reports:    (2004; 1.9Mb PDF)    (2006; 0.3Mb PDF).

Electrophysiology with Oocytes

Manual (preliminary):   (1.6 Mb PDF)
Past reports:   (2003; 0.1 Mb PDF)   (2003; 0.5 Mb PDF).

Fluorescent Imaging and Optical Sectioning

Past report:    (2002; 0.5Mb PDF).

Holography

Past reports:   (2002; 0.1Mb PDF)   (2008; 4.2Mb PPT).

Laser Doppler Flowometry

Past report:    (2006; 2.5Mb PDF).

Mossbauer Spectroscopy (discontinued)

Past report:    (2001; 0.4Mb PDF).

mRNA Synthesis and Expression in Oocytes

Past report:    (2001; 0.4Mb PDF).

Nonlinear Optics

Laser manuals:   (3.6Mb PDF)    (3.0Mb PDF)
Past reports:    (2006; 0.4Mb PDF)    (2008; 0.6Mb PDF).

Optical Tweezers

Manual (preliminary):    (0.7Mb PDF)
Past reports:    (2002; 0.2Mb PDF)    (2003; 0.2Mb PDF)
  (2008; 3.0Mb PDF).

Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Past reports:    (2004; 1.2Mb PDF)    (2006; 0.2Mb PDF)
   (2008; 2.1Mb PDF).

Visual Coding in the Fly

Past Reports:    (2001; 0.4Mb PDF)    (2002; 1.4Mb PDF)
   (2004; 0.8 Mb PDF)   (2006; 9.7Mb HTML)
  (2008; 0.7Mb PDF) .

Zeeman Effect in Mercury (discontinued)

Handout:    (1.6Mb PDF).
Past Reports:    (2002; 0.1Mb PDF)    (2003; 0.5Mb PDF).


 
 
 
 

Date Modified: 4/2009

David Kleinfeld, PhD
Physics Department
UC San Diego
dk@physics.ucsd.edu