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Brownian Motion
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This manual describes an advanced undergraduate laboratory experiment in the study of Brownian motion.  The manual explains the statistical physics of Brownian motion in detail and then describes the measurement of diffusion coefficients for fluorescent latex beads in water.  The analogy between trajectories of a Brownian particle and the random coiled configurations of biomolecules is discussed.  This analogy leads to a rough prediction for the rate of diffusion of a DNA molecule in water. Accordingly the experiment includes measurement of the Brownian motion of fluorescently labelled DNA fragments.
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Thermo & Stat Mech
- Kinetic and Diffusive Processes
= Brownian Motion
= Diffusion
- Upper Undergraduate
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Instructor Guide/Manual
= Laboratory
= Student Guide
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© 2015 The University of Florida, Gainesville.
Keywords:
DNA, Diffusion of DNA in water
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Metadata instance created December 28, 2015 by Stephen Hagen
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February 12, 2016 by Ramon Torres-Isea
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