Biofluorimetry Lab

Biofluorimetry Lab

Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medica

University of Rome 'La Sapienza'

page created and maintained by Leopoldo Silvestroni & Simonetta Palleschi

last update April 3, 2008

Physics & Biophysics

physics

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Abbreviations, symbols

Acoustics:

animal acoustics

boundary conditions

chaotic oscillations

coupled harmonic oscillators

decibel

diffraction

doppler effect

doppler shift

forced oscillations/resonance

frequency

interference

kinematics

matter waves

measurement of sound (1) (2) (3)

music and the ear

noise

phonons (1) (2) (3) (4)

physics of hearing

reflection and refraction

simple harmonic motion

sound spectrum/sources

sound waves (1) (2)

speed of sound

standing waves/resonance

superposition

superposition: fourier principles/complex waves

travelling waves

ultrasound (1) (2)

underwater acoustics

vibrational modes

Astrophysics glossary

Atomic & nuclear physics:

accelerators (glossary of terms)

accelerators and synchrotrons (interactive)

atomic and ionic radius

atomic and molecular physics (interactive experiments)

atomic orbitals

atomic properties

atomic physics tutorials

atomic quantum mechanics

atomic scattering & tof

atomic spectroscopy

atomic structure

atomic structure

atoms review

atoms, molecules, gases & plasmas

biological effects of radiation

Bohr atom (AVI)

Bohr model of the atom

elastic photon-atom scattering

elastic photon-atom scattering

electromagnetic radiation

electronic structures

electron-impact ionization

elementary particles

fission

fission and fusion

form factor, attenuation, scattering

fusion & plasma

fusion and plasma

hep/particle properties

high energy particles

history of radiation and radiation protection

infrared radiation and degrees of freedom

ion beam analysis

ionising radiation - radiation chemistry

materials (ceramics, glass, metals etc)

minerals

natural radioactivity

neutron capture gamma-ray

neutrons

nmr
nuclear decay and radioactive series

nuclear glossary

nuclear properties/astrophysics

nuclear physics (interactive experiments)

nuclear physics tutorials

nuclear reactions

nuclear structure, decay & isotopes

nuclide maps

nuclides

opacities

particle interactions

photon cross sections: elements, compounds or mixtures

quantum mechanics

quantum numbers and the periodic table

radiation and radioactivity

radiation dosimetry

radiation information network

radioactive decay

radioactive decay calculator (1) (2) (3)

radioactivity

radiation physics (interactive experiments)

radionuclide half-life measurements

range of alpha particles

Rutherford's model

spectral sensitivity of the eye

spin trap & epr

surface science spectra

tight-binding parameters & binary compounds

X-rays:

absorption coefficients

and gamma-ray data
attenuation coefficients

diffraction

emission line chart
emission lines

fluoroscope (animated)
interactions with matter

properties and spectrum

transition energies
www server

Binary phase equilibria (1)(2)
Binary prefixes
Bioelectricity
Bioenergetics (1)(2)

Biomagnetism and bio-electromagnetism

Biomechanics Yellow Pages

Bionics:

links (1)(2)

rebuilding the body with bionics

silicon cochlea - from biology to bionics

trade secret of sticky spiders revealed

two jointed robot arm, elastic drives and active oscillation damping

what is bionics?

Biophysical chronology

Biophysics (1) (2)

Biophysics textbook

Chaos (interactive experiments)

Carbon nanotubes physical properties

Cathode and canal rays

Chronology
Cloud chambers

Conformation space & energy function of proteins
Constants (1)
Conversion of units

Coordinate systems

Databases:

atomic quantum mechanics

atomic scattering & tof

atomic spectroscopy

atomic structure

atoms, molecules, gases & plasmas

elastic photon-atom scattering

electron-impact ionization

electronic structures

fission

form factor, attenuation, scattering

fusion & plasma

thermal properties:

energy provided by foods

measurement converter

energy consumed during activity

heats of combustion

specific heat capacities

thermal conductivities

expansion

temperatures of some physical phenomena

Detection electronics:

current-to-voltage conversion

gated integrator

lock-in amplifier

oscilloscope: introduction & digital oscilloscope

pulse counting (photon counting)

transient recorder

Directories

Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism:

action potential

cable model of the axon

capacitance

capacitors and RC circuits

circuit topology

circuits

common potential differences

coulomb force

electric fields

electrical terms glossary

electromagnetic oscillations

electromagnetic radiation
electromagnetic waves and Maxwell's equations

electromagnetism

electromagnetism (animated)

electromagnetism (interactive experiments)

electromagnetism tutorials

electrolysis

electrostatics

Faraday's law

Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction (animated)

lcr phase relationships

inductance

magnetic fields (1)(2)

magnetic properties

magnetic resonance imaging

magnetisn tutorials

mass spectroscopy, current loops and spin

membrane potentials

meters

motors

moving charge in a magnetic field

oscilloscopes

permittivity, dielectric constants

resistance

resistivities

solid state and semiconductors

thermionic emission

thermoelectricity

transformers

temperature coefficients of resistivities (table of vaues)

triboelectric sequence

voltaic cells

Electrodynamic (van der Waals) forces

Electron diffraction

Electronic textbooks

Electronics tutorial

Elementary particles

Enciclopedia multimediale on line

Energy transduction in membranes

Entropy and the laws of thermodynamics

Entropy

Famous physicists and astronomers:

Niels Bohr

Max Born

Louis de Broglie

Nicolaus Copernicus

Marie Curie

Paul Dirac

Albert Einstein

Michael Faraday

Enrico Fermi

Richard Phillips Feynman

Edmond Halley

Stephen Hawking

Werner Karl Heisenberg

Edwin Powell Hubble

Lord Kelvin

Johannes Kepler

Irving Langmuir

James Clerk Maxwell

Robert Andrews Millikan

Sir Isaac Newton

Blaise Pascal

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

Max Planck

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

Sir Ernest Rutherford

Erwin Schroedinger

Sir Joseph John Thomson

Hideki Yukawa

Fluids:

blood velocity and turbulence

bulk modulus and fluid elasticity

human cardiovascular system

fluid mechanics
nature of fluids

Poiseuille's equation

pulsatile flow

tutorials

viscosities

water viscosity

waves (animated)

Franck-Hertz experiment

Fuel cells

Fundamental particles

Fundamental physical constants

Gas-phase equilibria

General relativity

Hydrophobicity scale of amino acids
History (1) (2)

Interactive physics textbook

Interactive simulation & VRML gallery
International system of Units
Introductory physics notes

Ion channels and excitability simulations

Laws and rules of physics

Lipid thermotropic phase transitions database

Liquid Crystals
Luminescence

Mathematical models in biophysics (PDF)

Matrices

Mechanics:

acceleration

angular momentum

angular quantities

conservation of energy (1)(2)

densities

dynamics

elastic properties

frames of reference

friction

friction and drag

forces

gravitation

kinematics

linear inertia

mechanical advantage

mechanics

linear momentum

motion in one dimension

newtonian mechanics

physical measurements

projectiles

rotational dynamics

rotational inertia

static equilibrium

statics and mechanical equilibrium

stress and strain

torque

vectors (1)(2)

toques & braking angles - human bones

Young's, shear, bulk moduli

Membrane/s:

fluidity
fusion intermediate state-Stalk (3 source papers, pdf)

Molecular dynamics simulations of lipid bilayers

Molecular dynamics simulations of membranes

peptide-induced pores (source paper, pdf)

permeability

potential (Nernst) (slides) (Gouy-Chapman equation)

potential in brain

protein explorer (by hydropathy plot)

protein folding and stability (thermodynamics)
protein-lipid interaction energetics

Molecular biophysics (links)

Molecular structure calculation (with 3D images)

NMR fundamentals

Optics, Light & Photons:

absorption and emission of light

adaptive optics tutorial

atmospheric optics

biophoton emission from the hands (pdf)

black body radiation curve

diffraction (single slit - java), pinhole, )

electromagnetic self-field theory as applied to hydrogen atom (pdf)

electromagnetic waves and wave properties of light

gratings and spectra

holography

Huygen's principle

illusions

image formation by converging or diverging lens

infrared spectra
infrared spectra (Introduction to)

infrared spectroscopy - Basic

interference (1java) (2) (3):

classic two-slit experiment

electron interference

waves (movie)

laser (AVI)

laser application issues

laser physics encyclopedia

laser tutorials & safety
lasers

lens and mirror experiments

lens and mirror tutorials and applets

lenses

lenses: converging/diverging (animated)

Light absorption

Light & energy: interactive (java)

light in our cells

mirrors (1) (concave) (convex)

multiple slit diffraction

optic tutorials

optical tweezers: measuring piconewton forces (pdf)
optics (1) (2 textbook)

optics sites

"orbits" and electron probability clouds

photobiology online

photoelectric effect (1) (2)

photomultiplier tube movie

photon and its energy (1) (2)

photon counting (1 pdf) (2 pdf) (3 pdf)

photons (1) (2)

Planck’s 'constant' (1) (2 pdf) (3 pdf)

polarization and birefringence

polarization components-adjustable phase between x&y

prisms

propagation of light

refraction and reflection

reflection/refraction

spatial coherence

spectral energy

spectroscopy of the em field: a predicted photonic chemistry

spherical aberration

timeline

total internal reflection

tutorials (1) (2)

wave amplitude, wavelength, phase

wavelength dependence on energy level change

Microcalaorimetry

Nonlinearity (1) (2)

Osmotic swelling

Particle-surface resources on the Internet (180 links!)

Particle tracking: applications to membrane dynamics (PDF)

Particle tracking - 2D

Particle tracking vlocimetry - 3D - (1) (2) (3)

Particle tracking algorithms

Particle tracking in 3-D+ microscopy

Particle tracking in a 2-photon excitation microscope

Particle tracking in dynamic fluorescence microscopy (PDF)

Particle tracking microrheology: static and dynamic errors (PDF)

Particle tracking microscopy (SPTM)

Particle tracking using IDL (download software)

Permeation as a diffusion process (pdf)

Phase diagram of water

Phase diagram web

Phase diagrams (1)(2) (3, glossary of terms)

Phase equilibria basics

Phase equilibria (1)(2)(3)(4)

Plasma physics

Protein-detergent interactions
Physical constants (1) (2) (3)

Physical reference data (NIST)
Physics (1) (2)

Physics calculators

Physics demonstrations with schemes

Physics equations (pdf)

Physics lab tutorials

Physics lecture demonstrations

Physics movies (1) (2) (3)

Physics notebooks

Physics simulations (1) (2)

Physics tutorials (1 - 2 - 3)
Physics Web

Piezo Transducers:

introduction

history of piezoelectricity

glossary

terminology

Protein folding - unraveling the mystery

quantum biology (1) (2) (3, PDF) (4)

Quantum biophysics in living organisms

Quantum communication

Quantum dynamics and non-linear phenomena
Quantum mechanical barrier penetration

Quantum mechanical non-locality

Quantum mechanics (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (history)
Quantum physics (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

Algebraic Quantum Physics

and Atomic physics/Atomic structure (links to pdf files)

and Buddism

and Hinduism

Applets

Aspect Experiment
Bell's Inequality
Blackbody Radiation

Classical States

Compton Scattering

Copenhagen interpretation (1) (2)

de Broglie Waves

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

Entanglement

Experimental (Prof. Harald Weinfurter)

Hilbert Space

International forum

Introduction to

Links

News (1) (2)

Origins

Photoelectric Effect

Papers

Particles and Waves

Primer

Probability Wave

Problems

Product States

Schrodinger's Cat

Schrödinger Equation

Spin

String Theory Web Site

Superstrings (web site) (and auras)
Tutorials

Uncertainty Principle

What is?

Wave Function

Wave-Particle Duality

Raman:

scattering (1) (2)
spectra of carbohydrates
spectroscopy of single molecules (SERS)

Scattering

SI system:

prefixes (1)(2)(3)

introduction
measurement converter

base & derived units

supplementary units

conversion factors

greek alphabet

units

Signal conversion: electrical to chemical
Single molecule microspectroscopy

Sound speed in sea-water - pure water

Special relativity

Spectroscopy
Spectrometry
Statistical mechanics

Structural biophysics web resources

Superconductivity

Surface charge (1, pdf) (2) (3)

Symbols (1) (2)

Temperature:

Peltier cooling (1) (2)

Temperature conversion calculator

Ternary phase diagrams (1) (2) (3)

Thermal noise

Thermodynamic data:

at 298 K

Cp, entropy, and enthalpy of formation) for over 5000 compounds

equilibrium (experiments, Java)

Thermodynamics:

all you need to konw

body temperature regulation

energy transduction in biological membranes (1) (2)

cellular metabolism

chemical potential energy

heat

laws

photosynthesis and entropy generation

statistical mechanics

statistical systems

statistical thermodynamics computational site

tutorials

Thermoelectric Handbook

Thermophysical properties of fluid systems

Time measurement

Vapor-liquid equilibria for distillation

Vapor pressure, boiling and freezing temperatures of a solution
Vibrational spectrum of a linear molecule (pdf file)

Wavenumber tables for calibration of infrared spectrometers

Why things have color

Zeeman effect