Teaching physics to biologists requires far more than making the course for
engineers mathematically less rigorous and adding in a few superficial
biological problems. What is needed is for physicists to work closely with
biologists to learn not only what physics topics and habits of mind that are
useful to biologists, but how biologists work is fundamentally different from
ours, and how to bridge that gap. In this article, we discussed what we have
learned about these issues from years of conversations with colleagues in
biology.
