Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

Award-winning professor brings you from first-year physics and chemistry to the frontier of single-molecule biophysics.
Biological Physics is a university textbook that focuses on results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classic results in statistical physics, biophysical chemistry, and neuroscience. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging fields of nanotechnology and mechanobiology, and has significant overlap with the revised MCAT exam. This inexpensive new edition updates the classic book, particularly the chapter on motors, and incorporates many clarifications and enhancements throughout. Exercises are given at all levels of difficulty. Instead of offering a huge pile of facts, the discovery-style exposition frequently asks the reader to reflect on "How could anything like that happen at all?" and then shows how science, and scientists, have proceeded incrementally to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding these beautiful mechanisms. Working through this book will give you an appreciation for how science has advanced in the past, and the skills and frameworks needed to push forward in the future.

Additional topics include the statistical physics of diffusion; bacterial motility; self-assembly; entropic forces; enzyme kinetics; ion channels and pumps; the chemiosmotic mechanism and its role in ATP maintenance; and the discovery of the mechanism of neural signaling.

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Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

Award-winning professor brings you from first-year physics and chemistry to the frontier of single-molecule biophysics.
Biological Physics is a university textbook that focuses on results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classic results in statistical physics, biophysical chemistry, and neuroscience. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging fields of nanotechnology and mechanobiology, and has significant overlap with the revised MCAT exam. This inexpensive new edition updates the classic book, particularly the chapter on motors, and incorporates many clarifications and enhancements throughout. Exercises are given at all levels of difficulty. Instead of offering a huge pile of facts, the discovery-style exposition frequently asks the reader to reflect on "How could anything like that happen at all?" and then shows how science, and scientists, have proceeded incrementally to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding these beautiful mechanisms. Working through this book will give you an appreciation for how science has advanced in the past, and the skills and frameworks needed to push forward in the future.

Additional topics include the statistical physics of diffusion; bacterial motility; self-assembly; entropic forces; enzyme kinetics; ion channels and pumps; the chemiosmotic mechanism and its role in ATP maintenance; and the discovery of the mechanism of neural signaling.

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Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

by Philip Nelson
Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

by Philip Nelson

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Award-winning professor brings you from first-year physics and chemistry to the frontier of single-molecule biophysics.
Biological Physics is a university textbook that focuses on results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classic results in statistical physics, biophysical chemistry, and neuroscience. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging fields of nanotechnology and mechanobiology, and has significant overlap with the revised MCAT exam. This inexpensive new edition updates the classic book, particularly the chapter on motors, and incorporates many clarifications and enhancements throughout. Exercises are given at all levels of difficulty. Instead of offering a huge pile of facts, the discovery-style exposition frequently asks the reader to reflect on "How could anything like that happen at all?" and then shows how science, and scientists, have proceeded incrementally to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding these beautiful mechanisms. Working through this book will give you an appreciation for how science has advanced in the past, and the skills and frameworks needed to push forward in the future.

Additional topics include the statistical physics of diffusion; bacterial motility; self-assembly; entropic forces; enzyme kinetics; ion channels and pumps; the chemiosmotic mechanism and its role in ATP maintenance; and the discovery of the mechanism of neural signaling.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780578687025
Publisher: Chiliagon Science
Publication date: 05/21/2020
Edition description: Student ed.
Pages: 584
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Philip Nelson is Professor of Physics and director of the Biophysics major at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple teaching awards from the University of Pennsylvania and from the Biophysical Society, in part, for creating the course that formed the basis for this book.

Table of Contents

PART I Mysteries, Metaphors, Models

Chapter 1 What the ancients knew

Chapter 2 What’s inside cells

PART II Diffusion, Dissipation, Drive

Chapter 3 The molecular dance

Chapter 4 Random walks, friction, and diffusion

Chapter 5 Life in the slow lane: The low Reynolds number world

Chapter 6 Entropy, temperature, and free energy

Chapter 7 Entropic forces at work

Chapter 8 Chemical forces and self-assembly

PART III Molecules, Machines, Mechanisms

Chapter 9 Cooperative transitions in macromolecules

Chapter 10 Enzymes and molecular machines

Chapter 11 Machines in membranes

Chapter 12 Nerve impulses

Epilogue

Appendix A Symbols and Units

Appendix B Numerical Values

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