Subject Code:  PH7L014 Subject Name: Biophysics L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Atomic description of biomolecules: DNA, RNA, and proteins; forces and energetic in living systems: cells; Quantitative measurement techniques to investigate biological problems: NMR, Raman spectroscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, optical microscopy; Statistical physics in biology: energy and entropy in complex biomolecules, molecular machines; Molecular modeling of biological problems: Brownian motion and diffusion, protein folding, enzyme reaction; Biomechanics: statics and human anatomy, mechanics of motion.
Text Books/Reference Books: 
  1. Nelson P., Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life, Freeman.
  2. Dill Ken and Bromberg Sarina, Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Nanoscience, Garland Science.
  3. Lodish H. et al., Molecular Cell Biology, Freeman.
  4. Alberts B. et. al., Molecular Biology of the Cell,Garland Science.