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Subject(s)

• Biophysics [Browse]
• Cytology [Browse]
• Cells [Browse]

Author

• Kondev, Jane [Browse]
• Theriot, Julie [Browse]
• Garcia, Hernan G. [Browse]

Illustrator

• Orme, Nigel [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Textbooks [Browse]

Summary note

"Physical Biology of the Cell maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key organizing principle, the proximity of topics is based on the physical concepts that unite a given set of biological phenomena. Herein lies the central premise: that the appropriate application of a few fundamental physical models can serve as the foundation of whole bodies of quantitative biological intuition, useful across a wide range of biological problems. The Second Edition features full-color illustrations throughout, two new chapters on the role of light in life and pattern formation, additional explorations of biological problems using computation, and significantly more end-of-chapter problems. This textbook is written for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Why : biology by the numbers
• What and where : construction plans for cells and organisms
• When : stopwatches at many scales
• Who : "bless the little beasties"
• Mechanical and chemical equilibrium in the living cell
• Entropy rules!
• Two-state systems : from ion channels to cooperative binding
• Random walks and the structure of macromolecules
• Electrostatics for salty solutions
• Beam theory : architecture for cells and skeletons
• Biological membranes : life in two dimensions
• The mathematics of water
• A statistical view of biological dynamics
• Life in crowded and disordered environments
• Rate equations and dynamics in the cell
• Dynamics of molecular motors
• Biological electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley model
• Light and life
• Organization of biological networks
• Biological patterns : order in space and time
• Sequences, specificity, and evolution
• Whither physical biology?

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ISBN

• 0815344503 ((pbk.))
• 9780815344506 ((pbk.))

LCCN

2012030733

OCLC

809789665

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