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Biological Physics

First  Edition|©2013  Philip Nelson

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Biological Physics centers around new results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years alongside classical results. Also providing foundational material for the emerging field of nanotechnology, both undergrads and graduate students can benefit from using this text.

Contents

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

Authors

Philip Nelson

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.


Biological Physics centers around new results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years alongside classical results. Also providing foundational material for the emerging field of nanotechnology, both undergrads and graduate students can benefit from using this text.

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

Philip Nelson

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.


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