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In implementing various aspects of the curriculum in biological physics at Kenyon College we draw, in part, upon the following references:
 
Articles:
Goldstein,R., Nelson, P.C., Powers, T.R., "Teaching Biological Physics," Physics Today, p.46-51, (March 2005)
Amador, S., "Teaching Medical Physics to General Audiences," Biophysical J., 66, 2217-2221 (1994)
Bumpus J.A., Kim J.J., Coon S.R., “Introducing light-scattering technology into the undergraduate curriculum.” J. Chem. Educ., 77, 1396 (2000)
Santos N.C., Castanho M., “Teaching light scattering spectroscopy: The dimension and shape of tobacco mosaic virus.” Biophysical J.,71, 1641-1650 (1996)
Adams JD, Rogers BS, Leifer LJ, “Microtechnology, nanotechnology, and the scanning-probe microscope: An innovative course.” IEEE Trans. Educ., 47, 51-56 (2004)
Smith S.P., Bhalotra S.R., Brody A.L., Brown B.L., Boyda E.K., Prentiss M., “Inexpensive optical tweezers for undergraduate laboratories.” Am. J. Phys., 67, 26-35 (1999)
Bechhoefer J, Wilson S., “Faster, cheaper, safer optical tweezers for the undergraduate laboratory.” Am. J. Phys., 70, 393-400 (2002)
Appleyard, D.C., Vandermeulen, K.Y., Lee, H., and Lang, M.J., "Optical trapping for undergraduates," Am. J. Phys. 75 (1), 5 (2007)
Cox, A.J., DeWeerd, A.J., and Linden, J., "An experiment to measure Mie and Rayleigh total scattering cross sections," Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 620 (2002)
Viney, C. and Fenton, R.A., "Physics and gel electrophoresis: using terminal velocity to charachterize moleculer weight," Eur. J. Phys. 19, 575 (1998)
Miles, D.G. Jr., and Buchman D.W., "Protein gel electrophoresis in the undergraduate physics laboratory," Am. J. Phys. 73 (12), 1186 (2005)
 
Books:
Nelson, P., "Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life," W.H. Freeman: New York, 2004
Davidovits, P., "Physics in Biology and Medicine," 2nd ed., Elsevier/Harcourt AP: 2001
Srivastava, P.K., "Elementary Biophysics," Alpha Science: Harrow, U.K., 2005
Cotterill, R., "Biophysics: An Introduction," Wiley: West Sussex, U.K., 2002
Daune Michel, "Molecular Biophysics," Oxford UP: New York, 1999
Nölting, B., "Methods in Modern Biophysics," Springer: New York, 2004
Metcalf, H.J., "Topics in Classical Biophysics," Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1980
Hughes W., "Aspects of Bio Physics," Wiley: New York, 1979
     

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