Biological Physics
Title | Biological Physics PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Nelson |
Publisher | Macmillan Higher Education |
Pages | 661 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1319038948 |
Biological Physics focuses on new results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classical results. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging field of nanotechnology.
Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo
Title | Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo PDF eBook |
Author | Gabor Forgacs |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2005-11-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521783378 |
During development cells and tissues undergo changes in pattern and form that employ a wider range of physical mechanisms than at any other time in an organism's life. This book demonstrates how physics can be used to analyze these biological phenomena. Written to be accessible to both biologists and physicists, major stages and components of the biological development process are introduced and then analyzed from the viewpoint of physics. The presentation of physical models requires no mathematics beyond basic calculus.
Introductory Physics for Biological Scientists
Title | Introductory Physics for Biological Scientists PDF eBook |
Author | Christof M. Aegerter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2018-11-08 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1108423345 |
An introduction to the fundamental physical principles related to the study of biological phenomena, structured around relevant biological examples.
Biophysics
Title | Biophysics PDF eBook |
Author | William Bialek |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 653 |
Release | 2012-12-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1400845572 |
A physicist's guide to the phenomena of life Interactions between the fields of physics and biology reach back over a century, and some of the most significant developments in biology—from the discovery of DNA's structure to imaging of the human brain—have involved collaboration across this disciplinary boundary. For a new generation of physicists, the phenomena of life pose exciting challenges to physics itself, and biophysics has emerged as an important subfield of this discipline. Here, William Bialek provides the first graduate-level introduction to biophysics aimed at physics students. Bialek begins by exploring how photon counting in vision offers important lessons about the opportunities for quantitative, physics-style experiments on diverse biological phenomena. He draws from these lessons three general physical principles—the importance of noise, the need to understand the extraordinary performance of living systems without appealing to finely tuned parameters, and the critical role of the representation and flow of information in the business of life. Bialek then applies these principles to a broad range of phenomena, including the control of gene expression, perception and memory, protein folding, the mechanics of the inner ear, the dynamics of biochemical reactions, and pattern formation in developing embryos. Featuring numerous problems and exercises throughout, Biophysics emphasizes the unifying power of abstract physical principles to motivate new and novel experiments on biological systems. Covers a range of biological phenomena from the physicist's perspective Features 200 problems Draws on statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and related mathematical concepts Includes an annotated bibliography and detailed appendixes
Introduction to Biological Physics for the Health and Life Sciences
Title | Introduction to Biological Physics for the Health and Life Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Franklin |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2010-08-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780470711392 |
This book aims to demystify fundamental biophysics for students in the health and biosciences required to study physics and to understand the mechanistic behaviour of biosystems. The text is well supplemented by worked conceptual examples that will constitute the main source for the students, while combining conceptual examples and practice problems with more quantitative examples and recent technological advances.
Physics in Molecular Biology
Title | Physics in Molecular Biology PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Sneppen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2005-08-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521844192 |
This book, first published in 2005, is a discussion for advanced physics students of how to use physics to model biological systems.
Statistical Physics for Biological Matter
Title | Statistical Physics for Biological Matter PDF eBook |
Author | Wokyung Sung |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2018-10-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 940241584X |
This book aims to cover a broad range of topics in statistical physics, including statistical mechanics (equilibrium and non-equilibrium), soft matter and fluid physics, for applications to biological phenomena at both cellular and macromolecular levels. It is intended to be a graduate level textbook, but can also be addressed to the interested senior level undergraduate. The book is written also for those involved in research on biological systems or soft matter based on physics, particularly on statistical physics. Typical statistical physics courses cover ideal gases (classical and quantum) and interacting units of simple structures. In contrast, even simple biological fluids are solutions of macromolecules, the structures of which are very complex. The goal of this book to fill this wide gap by providing appropriate content as well as by explaining the theoretical method that typifies good modeling, namely, the method of coarse-grained descriptions that extract the most salient features emerging at mesoscopic scales. The major topics covered in this book include thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, soft matter physics of polymers and membranes, non-equilibrium statistical physics covering stochastic processes, transport phenomena and hydrodynamics. Generic methods and theories are described with detailed derivations, followed by applications and examples in biology. The book aims to help the readers build, systematically and coherently through basic principles, their own understanding of nonspecific concepts and theoretical methods, which they may be able to apply to a broader class of biological problems.