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Physical Models of Living Systems

First  Edition©2015 Philip Nelson

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Written for intermediate-level undergraduates pursuing any science or engineering major, Physical Models of Living Systems helps students develop many of the competencies that form the basis of the new MCAT2015. The only prerequisite is first-year physics. With the more advanced "Track-2" sections at the end of each chapter, the book can be used in graduate-level courses as well.

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Table of Contents

I First Steps

1. Virus Dynamics

2. Physics and Biology

 

II Randomness in Biology

3. Discrete Randomness

4. Some Useful Discrete Distributions

5. Continuous Distributions

6. Model selection and parameter estimation

7. Poisson Processes

 

III Control in Cells

8. Randomness in Cellular Processes

9. Negative Feedback Control

10. Genetic Switches in Cells

11. Cellular Oscillators

Epilogue

 

Appendix A Global List of Symbols

Appendix B Units and dimensional analysis

Appendix C Numerical Values

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.