IPLS Materials

I am very glad for others to use and adapt these materials for educational purposes only (no commercial use); please attribute materials to me in any form you use. If you adapt them please acknowledge the original and send me a copy of your adaptation, so that I can benefit from your ideas.

Overview

Swarthmore course syllabus with biological contexts

American Journal of Physics article (with Ken Heller, University of Minnesota) about course design and preliminary assessment results

Full Swarthmore course description for students including course structure and pedagogy as well as content

Laboratory materials

Overview of laboratory materials

Full list of labs and introduction 

Materials for specific labs:

• Electrocardiography — updated 1 January 2020
  Zip files with all materials Part 1 Part 2 Slides
  Electrocardiography reading PDF Word
  Electrocardiography mathematical appendis PDF Word
  Electrocardiography lecture slides PPT PDF
  Electrocardiography lab writeup PDF Word
  Electrocardiography lab equipment list PDF
  Electrocardiography lab instructor notes PDF Word
  Electrocardiography data animation (zipped Mathematica notebook)
  Electrocardiography homework problem PDF Word

• Passive spread of nerve signals (adapted from a lab developed by Lili Cui and Eric Anderson, UMBC)
  Lab manual PDF Word
  Diagrams PDF Word

• Understanding how microscopes work (optical instruments part I)
  Lab manual PDF Word
  Lab equipment list PDF Word
  Diagrams Word
  Preparation solutions PDF Word

• Vision correction (optical instruments part II)
  Lab manual, PDF format
  Lab manual, Word format
  Instructor notes

Zip file with PDFs of all labs

Other teaching materials

If you would like editable files of anything that is posted here, or are wondering if I have materials about a particular topic, please don’t hesitate to ask; please send me email to request them at ccrouch1@swarthmore.edu.
Zip file with class notes

Zip file with syllabus and problem sets

Zip file with ConcepTests and sample problems

Biological homework problems PDF file

Biological homework problems Word file