Award-winning professor brings you from first-year physics and chemistry to the frontier of single-molecule biophysics. Biological Physics is a university textbook that focuses on results in molecular motors, self-assembly, and single-molecule manipulation that have revolutionized the field in recent years, and integrates these topics with classic results in statistical physics, biophysical chemistry, and neuroscience. The text also provides foundational material for the emerging fields of nanotechnology and mechanobiology, and has significant overlap with the revised MCAT exam. This inexpensive new edition updates the classic book, particularly the chapter on motors, and incorporates many clarifications and enhancements throughout. Exercises are given at all levels of difficulty. Instead of offering a huge pile of facts, the discovery-style exposition frequently asks the reader to reflect on "How could anything like that happen at all?" and then shows how science, and scientists, have proceeded incrementally to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding these beautiful mechanisms. Working through this book will give you an appreciation for how science has advanced in the past, and the skills and frameworks needed to push forward in the future. Additional topics include the statistical physics of diffusion; bacterial motility; self-assembly; entropic forces; enzyme kinetics; ion channels and pumps; the chemiosmotic mechanism and its role in ATP maintenance; and the discovery of the mechanism of neural signaling.

Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

Science & Math

Nelson, Philip

Astronomy & Space Science

Chiliagon Science

Award-winning prof brings you from first-year classes to the frontiers of systems and synthetic biology, epidemic modeling, and imaging. Physical Models of Living Systems first develops the frameworks needed to understand modern ideas about inference from data, as they relate to biological physics research. Later chapters develop stochastic simulation as a tool to handle more complex systems, and then dynamical systems theory applied to cellular control networks, both natural and synthetic. Along the way, you'll also see the foundations of revolutionary advances in imaging (superresolution and cryo-electron microscopy), along with epidemic modeling, mechanobiology, excitable media, and more. The text also has significant overlap with competencies covered in the MCAT exam. Dozens of problems at all levels, many of them new in this edition, will help you to gain simulation and data visualization skills useful in any branch of quantitative science research.

Physical Models of Living Systems: Probability, Simulation, Dynamics

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Biological Physics Student Edition: Energy, Information, Life

Physical Models of Living Systems: Probability, Simulation, Dynamics