This course covers biomechanics at the molecular (right), cellular (center), and tissue (right) scales. (Right: Courtesy of Elsevier, Inc. http://www.sciencedirect.com. Center: In the public domain. Left: Courtesy of Ernst B. Hunziker. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Roger Kamm
Prof. Alan Grodzinsky
MIT Course Number
20.310J / 3.053J / 6.024J / 2.797J
As Taught In
Spring 2015
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum and statistical mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales, from molecular to cellular to tissue or organ level.
Other Versions
Other OCW Versions
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