Physics of life : the physicist's road to biology.

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The purpose of the book is to give a survey of the physics that is relevant for biological applications, and also to discuss what kind of biology needs physics. The book gives a broad account of basic physics, relevant for the applications and various applications from properties of proteins to proc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blomberg, Clas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Elsevier Science, 2007.
Temas:
Biophysics.
Biophysics
Biophysique.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biophysics.
Biophysik
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • <I. General Introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Physics of Life. Physics of Two Levels
  • II. Basic Physics Concepts
  • 3. Concepts and Numerical Reference
  • 4. Basis of Classical (Newtonian) Dynamics
  • 5. Electricity
  • The Core of Reductionism Basis
  • 6. Quantum mechanics
  • 7. Basic Thermodynamics; Introduction
  • 8. Statistical Thermodynamics
  • III. The General Trends and the Objects
  • 9. Some Trends in 20th Century Physics
  • 10. From Simple to Complex Systems
  • 11. Theoretical Physics Models; Important Analogies
  • 12. The Biological Objects
  • 13. What is Life?
  • IV. Going Further with Thermodynamics
  • 14. Thermodynamic Formalism and Examples
  • 15. Examples of Entropy and Order/Disorder
  • 16. Statistical Thermodynamics Models
  • V. Stochastic Dynamics
  • 17. Basic Probability Concepts
  • 18. Stochastic Processes
  • 19. Random Walk*
  • 20. Stochastic Step Processes; Master Equations*
  • 21. Brownian Motion, First Description*
  • 22. Diffusion and Continuous Stochastic Processes*
  • 23. Brownian Motion, Continuation*
  • VI. Basic Macromolecular Applications
  • 24. Protein Folding and Structure Dynamics
  • 25. Basis of Enzyme Kinetics
  • VII Non-linearity
  • 26. General Introduction to Non-linearity
  • 27. Oscillations and Space Variations*
  • 28. Deterministic Chaos
  • 29. Noise and Nonlinear Phenomena
  • VIII. Applications
  • 30. Recognition and Selection in Biological Processes
  • 31. Brownian Ratchet, Unidirectional Processes
  • 32. Neural System
  • 33. Origin of Life
  • IX Going Further
  • 34. Physics Aspects on Evolution
  • 35. Determinism and Randomness
  • 36. Higher Functions of Life
  • 37. About the Direction of Time
  • 38. We are in the Best of Worlds; The Anthropic Principle.

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