Biological Physics: with New Art by David Goodsell / Edition 1

by Philip Nelson

Overview

Integrating new results which have revolutionized the field of biological physics over the past few years with classic results, Biological Physics is an ideal text for undergrads and graduate students alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780716798972
Publisher:	Freeman, W. H. & Company
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	7.12(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.22(d)

About the Author

Philip Nelson is Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. from Princeton University (1980) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1984). Dr. Nelson serves on the Biophysical Society’s Education Committee; he received Penn’s highest teaching award in 2001, in part for creating the course that formed the basis for this book. Dr. Nelson was recently elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Table of Contents

I. Mysteries, Metaphors, Models
1. What the ancients knew
2. What’s inside cells


II. Diffusion, Dissipation, Drive
3. The molecular dance
4. Random walks, friction, and diffusion
5. Life in the slow lane: The low Reynolds-number world
6. Entropy, temperature, and free energy
7. Entropic forces at work
8. Chemical forces and self-assembly

III. Molecules, Machines, Mechanisms
9. Cooperative transitions in macromolecules
10. Enzymes and molecular machines
11. Machines in membranes
12. Nerve impulses

Global list of symbols and units
Numerical values
Index