Course Description
How high can an animal jump? Why can a small animal survive a high drop? How come an ant can lift up to twenty times its own body weight, but we struggle with half of ours? These are the kinds of questions that we will try to answer in this class, using simple mechanical arguments to explain (and explore!) the consequences of size in nature. If you have an interest in applying maths and physics to biology, then this class is for you (just one installment in a million-part series in using mathematics to understand the natural world)!
Course Materials
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