This course will allow the students from Maths/Chemistry/Biology backgrounds to be exposed to the basics in Physics.
- Life at low Reynolds number
- Energy, minimization of energy
- Elasticity : examples with polymers and with simple visco-elastic materials
- Physics of membrane : examples with caveolae
- Hydrodynamics : the Navier-Stokes equation
- Scaling
- Phase transition
- Novelties in Physics