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Why are optical traps constructed using beads that are made of dielectric materials? What property of dielectrics is being employed here? Would a non-dielectric material still experience radiation force from photons? Thanks!

Fair enough. Let's do this in a more acceptable way: If anyone else is taking a biophysics class, especially with the text mentioned above, and would like to exchange ideas about problems, feel free to subscribe to the thread.

Right. I'm not asking for someone to print solutions here. I'm asking for the manual.

Does anyone have a solutions manual for the biophysics textbook, Physical Biology of the Cell. Or a link/login info for an online copy?

Wow! Thanks for all of the great advice. I am working mostly with C++ as some of you have suggested. I do have interest in Matlab, but I don't have interest in paying for it right now, haha. But some responses may be getting away from my original question, or maybe I wasn't clear enough. I am...

I am new to programing in general, and I want to learn a language that will be useful to me as a physicist. I am currently looking mostly at C++, but Java and C# also seem like useful tools. I don't want to waste my time studying anything that I won't use. Any suggestions from those of you who...