Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics

Lecture Notes

This page includes a sampling of some of the course lecture notes.

Lecture 1: introduction (PDF)

Molecular Mechanics

PDB tutorial (PDF)

Molecular level forces (PDF)

Diffusion calculations (PDF)

Notes on calculations relating to frictional drag, Einstein relation and some worm-like chain interpolations (PDF)

Tissue Mechanics

Tissue Mechanics Slides (PDF - 2.2 MB)

Poroelasticity and Cells (PDF - 1.7 MB)

Recitations

Recitation Notes 1 (PDF)

Recitation Notes 2 (PDF)

Recitation Notes 3 (PDF)

Recitation Notes 4 (PDF)

Recitation Notes 5 (PDF)

Assignments

Problem Set 1 (PDF)

Problem Set 2 (PDF)

Problem Set 3 (PDF) (XLS)

Problem Set 4 (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3)

Problem Set 5 (PDF)

Problem Set 6 (PDF)

Problem Set 7 (PDF)

Problem Set 8 (PDF)

Problem Set 9 (PDF)

Exams

Exam 1 Review (PDF)

Exam 2 Review (PDF 1) (PDF 2)

Projects

Term Paper Assignment (PDF)

Suggested Term Paper Sources (PDF)