Book Description
This book, first published in 2005, is a discussion for advanced physics students of how to use physics to model biological systems.
Author : Kim Sneppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : 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.
Author : Paul Davidovits
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0123694116
This third edition covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. It includes many figures, examples and illustrative problems and appendices which provide convenient access to the most important concepts of mechanics, electricity, and optics.
Author : Gabor Forgacs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : 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.
Author : Matt Tweed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0802778992
Collects six short illustrated volumes covering topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution, and astronomy.
Author : Ron Milo
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317230698
A Top 25 CHOICE 2016 Title, and recipient of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award. How much energy is released in ATP hydrolysis? How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or translation?Cell Biology by the Numbers explores these questions and dozens of others provid
Author : Christof M. Aegerter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108423345
An introduction to the fundamental physical principles related to the study of biological phenomena, structured around relevant biological examples.
Author : Jean-François Allemand
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN :
Do you often lose your keys? You will find in this book the best strategy to find them, or at least the one deduced from statistical physics. What is the link with biology? Some proteins use the same strategy to find their target inside a living cell. This example illustrates one of the many links between physics and biology. These links result from an intense research activity in the past years at the interface between those two disciplines. This book describes some of the most recent progresses at this interface: from instrumental progresses used in biology to the mechanical description of a cell, to molecular motors, from brain activity mechanisms to auditory or sensory perception. Many fields are covered from the molecular to the scale at the organ level. A few biological notions are presented in the first chapter that may help to access the biological aspects of the others. In the end this book may interest people passionate in science, from the simple amateur to the advanced researcher level.
Author : Wokyung Sung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : 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.
Author : Philip Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : 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.
Author : Robert Splinter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 142007525X
In considering ways that physics has helped advance biology and medicine, what typically comes to mind are the various tools used by researchers and clinicians. We think of the optics put to work in microscopes, endoscopes, and lasers; the advanced diagnostics permitted through magnetic, x-ray, and ultrasound imaging; and even the nanotools, that a