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Assignments (Fall 2014):

Assignment One (Lew)flea preparing to jump

Here is a key to the first assignment: Mammal vs Reptile Radiative Balance and Godzilla [pdf].


Past Assignments (Lew)

  • 2014 (03 oct): Mammal vs Reptile Radiative Balance and Godzilla [pdf]
  • 2013 (26 sep): Sun versus Human Radiators and Tesselation [pdf]
  • 2012 (28 sep): Osmotic Pumps and Tall Trees [pdf]
  • 2011 (22 sep): Boiling Humans and Tensile Water [pdf]
  • 2010 (07 oct): Bio-Ballistics [pdf]
  • 2009 (24 sep): A 10-Fold Taller Human [pdf]
  • 2008 (23 sep): Allometry and a Dyson Tree [pdf]
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    Sample Assignments (Lew)

    increasing size of Godzilla in the movies Here is a possible assignment on Galileo scaling and strength of biomaterials. The hook is the evolution of Godzilla. Specifically, Godzilla's increasing size in the movies. The assignment question: Would it work?


    Here is a sample assignment for Fick's Laws of Diffusion (Lew) (It is provided as a worked example for the lectures on Diffusion, Advection and Biological Pumps.):

    Another sample assignment for Pressure-Driven Pumps (It is provided as a worked example for the lectures on Diffusion, Advection and Biological Pumps.):

    Here are key-less sample assignments (Lew) (Disclaimer: Actual assignments may or may not be similar depending on the material covered in lecture):

    The image below is re-drawn from Burrow's work on the mechanics and energetics of snow flea jumping. It's a different type of a sample assignment: in which students would be asked to explain the physics of a snow flea jump (having read the paper), so that even a non-physicist like Dr. Lew could understand it.

    images of a jumping snow flea