email: samador@haverford.edu
office: KINSC L103
Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences: Resources for Teaching Premedical Physics
- Latest Talk on this topic: Temple University Fall 2012
- AAMC-HHMI Report: Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians
- Preview Guide for the new MCAT (MR5) to debut in 2015 (see especially pp. 61-67 and the sample problems on pages 86,87 and 88)
- Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences syllabi at Haverford College:
- Our Life Science Intro Physics Laboratories:
- Biomechanics: bone scaling & biopolymer elasticity (report form; equipment)
- Animal trajectories (prelab, python code exercise 1, python code exercise 2, Visual Python website, report form)
- Fluid mechanics (report form, equipment sources)
- Sound (report form; equipment)
- Electrocardiogram (report form; python heart dipole visualization code; sample ECG data; equipment)
- Geometrical Optics & the Human Eye (report form; equipment)
- DNA Crystallography (report form, DNA Optical transform Kit)
- Physics & Color (equipment sources: Vernier or Pasco & Educational Innovations)
- Spectroscopy & quantum dots (Vernier SpectroVis spectrometer, Cenco quantum dots kit)
- APS News Back Page Editorial: Physics for Future Physicians and Life Scientists: a moment of opportunity
- IPLS listserv (To sign up for the IPLS mail list, which I moderate, you should send a blank email message to: join-IPLS@mail.aapt.org; please share upcoming events and other information of interest using this resource!)
- Intro Physics for Life Sciences (IPLS) Wiki -- resources for teaching, upcoming events (hosted by Mark Reeves at George Washington University)
- Introduction to Physics in Modern Medicine (textbook website with online resources, lab manuals, demonstrations, etc. for teaching medical physics.)
- My Medical Physics course website
- Resources for teaching Biophysics (also, my biophysics course website)