Syllabus
- 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.
Annotation
The subject is not taught from 2021/2022. It is replaced by NMMO543 Biotermodynamics.