MIT OpenCourseWare

Browse materialsMIT 20.330J · Spring 2007

Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems

Subjects: Biology · Mechanical Engineering

Art: Robert Hooke, Micrographia Scheme 07, 1665 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Jongyoon Han, Prof. Scott Manalis
Term: Spring 2007
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 20 other files · 3 web pages
Materials open: MIT OCW

Start here

Start course: Lecture 1: Introduction to the course Fluid 1: Introduction to…Find a topic

Progress is saved in this browser.

Export or import progress

About this course

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 20.330J Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems, Spring 2007, Prof. Jongyoon Han, Prof. Scott Manalis — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.

Before you start

Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.

This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: Electromagnetic Fields and Energy

How this course was organized

What's here, and what isn't

A lecture sequence of 39 items is confirmed. It stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.

Not included here

2 items from the source could not be safely included:

MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (2 items)

Materials by section

Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.

Lecture Notes

13 files

Assignments

Study Materials

MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Jongyoon Han, Prof. Scott Manalis, 20.330J Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems, Spring 2007.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2007 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

Organized by RedLectern, independent of MIT and not endorsed by MIT.

Per-resource rights are recorded on each resource; All-Rights-Reserved items are link-only, never mirrored.

Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systems

Before you start

What's here, and what isn't

Not included here

Materials by section

Lecture Notes

Assignments

Study Materials

Lecture 1: Introduction to the course Fluid 1: Introduction to fluid flow ( PDF )

Lecture 2: Fluid 2: Drag forces and viscosity

Lecture 3: Fluid 3: Conservation of momentum

Lecture 4: Fluid 4: Conservation of momentum (example)

Lecture 5: Fluid 5: Navier-Stokes equation

Lecture 6: Fluid 6: Flows with viscous and inertial effects

Lecture 7: Fluid 7: Viscous-dominated flows, internal flows

Lecture 8: Fluid 8: External viscous flows

Lecture 9: Fluid 9: Porous media, poroelasticity

Lecture 10: Fluid 10: Cellular fluid mechanics (guest lecture by Prof. Roger Kamm)

Lecture 11: Field 1: Introduction to EM theory ( PDF )

Lecture 12: Field 2: Maxwell’s equations ( PDF )

Lecture 13: Quiz 1

Lecture 14: Field 3: EM field for biosystems ( PDF )

Lecture 15: Field 4: EM field in aqueous media ( PDF )

Lecture 16: Field 5: Debye layer ( PDF )

Lecture 17: Field 6: Quasielectrostatics 2 ( PDF )

Lecture 18: Field 7: Laplace’s equation 1 ( PDF )

Lecture 19: Field 8: Laplace’s equation 2 ( PDF )

Lecture 20: Field 9: Laplace’s equation 3 ( PDF )

Lecture 21: Transport 1

Lecture 22: Transport 2

Lecture 23: Transport 3

Lecture 24: Transport 4

Lecture 25: Transport 5

Lecture 26: Transport 6

Lecture 27: Quiz 2

Lecture 28: Transport 7

Lecture 29: Transport 8

Lecture 30: Transport 9

Lecture 31: EK1: Electrokinetic phenomena

Lecture 32: EK2: Electroosmosis 1 ( PDF )

Lecture 33: EK3: Electroosmosis 2 ( PDF )

Lecture 34: EK4: Electrophoresis 1

Lecture 35: EK5: Electrophoresis 2 ( PDF )

Lecture 36: EK6: Dielectrophoresis ( PDF )

Lecture 37: EK7: DLVO ( PDF )

Lecture 38: EK8: Forces

Lecture 39: EK9: Forces