Living Physics Portal: Modeling the Exchange of Momentum Between a Ligand and an Enzyme

Abstract: Students use an analytic approach to express quantitatively the exchange of momentum between two colliding particles. In the exercise students modify a line of code that expresses momentum transfer from one particle to the other. This exercise is meant to be given very early in students' experience with code and has several scaffolds to support them parsing the code. In the larger Diffusion sequence this is the first activity.

Resource Types: In-class activity, Lab, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

Authors:

Abhilash Nair

Michigan State University

Vashti Sawtelle

Michigan State University

Lisa Lapidus

Michigan State University

BLiSS Physics

Living Physics Portal Team

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Physics Topics:

Classical Mechanics > Linear Momentum > Collisions in One Dimension, Conservation of Linear Momentum

Classical Mechanics > Motion in One Dimension > Velocity

Thermo & Stat Mech > Kinetic and Diffusive Processes > Brownian Motion, Diffusion

Life Sciences Topics:

Molecular and Cellular Biology > Cellular Dynamics, Cellular Interactions

Math Topics:

Algebra

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Diffusion Model through Conservation of Momentum and Energy > Modeling the Exchange of Momentum Between a Ligand and an Enzyme

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