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Biothermodynamics - NMOD036
Title: Biotermodynamika
Guaranteed by: Mathematical Institute of Charles University (32-MUUK)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2018
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. Ing. František Maršík, DrSc.
Classification: Mathematics > Mathematical Modeling in Physics
Interchangeability : NMMO531
Is incompatible with: NMMO531
Is interchangeable with: NMMO531
Annotation -
Last update: T_MUUK (31.01.2001)
The limits of the application of some thermodynamical quantities (e.g. temperature, entropy, chemical potential) to the living systems and their compartments, e.g. membranes, cells, muscles, bones, etc. Balance laws of mass, momentum, electrical and magnetical induction, energy and entropy. Chemical kinetics and chemical thermodynamics. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Prigogin's principle of the minimum entropy production. Structure and function of biological cells, membrane transport. Electrical activity of neural and muscle cells - Hodgkin-Huxley model. FitzHugh-Nagumo model of excited tissue. Biological oscillations, thermodynamical aspects of biological evolution, bone remodelation, hemodynamics of the human cardiovascular system.
Syllabus -
Last update: FMARSIK/MFF.CUNI.CZ (17.04.2008)
  • The limits of the application of some thermodynamic quantities (e.g. temperature, entropy, chemical potential) to the living systems and their compartments, e.g. membranes, cells, muscles, bones, etc.
  • Balance laws of mass, momentum, electrical and magnetic induction, energy and entropy.
  • Chemical kinetics and chemical thermodynamics.
  • Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Prigogin's principle of the minimum entropy production.
  • Structure and function of biological cells, membrane transport. Electrical activity of neural and muscle cells -Hodgkin-Huxley model. FitzHugh-Nagumo model of excited tissue.
  • Biological oscillations, thermodynamic aspects of biological evolution.
  • Bone remodeling, hemodynamics of the human cardiovascular system.

 
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