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So with some prompting, I fleshed out the history of our SCB Discussion group. Thanks to help from lots of people, it looks like I was able to reconstruct all of the speakers, and almost all of the talk titles even!  Thirteen years! Hard to believe it has been that long. The group was started […]

A few more worked problems for the upcoming weeks. First, yet another Atwood problem. This time on kinematics and an Atwood Machine. Second and third, two problems on drag. A simple calculate force from drag problem, and a parachute problem. Then last but not least, two projectile motion problems. One involving a salmon and one […]

We have been working with protein-protein docking software to model different protein complexes. For this complex, the top pose was fairly unrealistic, but we decided to run a simulation.  See what happens, after a few hundred nanoseconds the complex comes apart and settles into a much more realistic complex. (One that as far as we […]

A simplified kinematics problem disguised as a submarine problem. Posted out of the usual place due to upload difficulties. 

We have four more physics videos We have a few more intro problems posted on youtube . First, a simple look at the kinematics of running. Second, a problem on accelerating cars. Then for our third and fourth problem, introductory friction problems, both conceptual and more mathematical.  

At our SCB Journal Club yesterday, Ryan Melvin did a talk combining methods and research. Fairly evenly divided the time between talking about different ways of doing structure prediction in case anyone was interested, and his preliminary work on looking at homology models, MD and docking and looking at structure prediction of aptamers; very difficult […]

Yesterday, we had our Structural and Computational Biophysics Symposium; including training grant faculty, and both certificate and training grant students. Small but with vigorous discussions. I also presented the SCB Certificate aims and curriculum:

We have four more physics videos First, a challenging problem on adding forces as vectors.  Second, a problem on the expansion of water.  Third,  a classic pulley with blocks and an inclined plane problem, but with friction added. And, last but not least, an elasticity problem on stretching steel.

Ryan Melvin has made five more problem solving video for our 113 class. Still trying to perfect the audio, but still good examples of how to solve problems. These are deliberately not the fanciest videos; the aim is to be as close to what you will actually do on pencil and paper. This week we […]

First two classes of my flipped calc-based General physics are done. This is the second time I have “flipped” this course and the first class actually had to have some lecture to cover the syllabus and since they hadn’t done any watching or reading. However, it went more smoothly then the first time I did […]