Description: (Same as Chemistry M120.) Lecture, 90 minutes; laboratory, four hours. Requisites: courses 110B, 115A. Students gain experience of conducting independent research in experimental biological physics. Construction of modern microscope. Use of microscope to image biological specimens. Students learn optics, diffraction, imaging, microscopy, computational physics, and/or fluorescent labeling. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0