Physics in Biology and Medicine

Physics in Biology and Medicine

Author: Paul Davidovits

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0123694116

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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.


Physics in Molecular Biology

Physics in Molecular Biology

Author: Kim Sneppen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-08-25

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780521844192

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This book, first published in 2005, is a discussion for advanced physics students of how to use physics to model biological systems.


Introductory Physics for Biological Scientists

Introductory Physics for Biological Scientists

Author: Christof M. Aegerter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1108423345

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An introduction to the fundamental physical principles related to the study of biological phenomena, structured around relevant biological examples.


Sciencia

Sciencia

Author: Matt Tweed

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0802778992

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Collects six short illustrated volumes covering topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution, and astronomy.


Biological Physics

Biological Physics

Author: Philip Nelson

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 661

ISBN-13: 1319038948

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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.


Statistical Physics for Biological Matter

Statistical Physics for Biological Matter

Author: Wokyung Sung

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 940241584X

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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.


Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo

Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo

Author: Gabor Forgacs

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-24

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780521783378

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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.


Physics of the Life Sciences

Physics of the Life Sciences

Author: Jay Newman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-23

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 0387772596

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Each chapter has three types of learning aides for students: open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions, and quantitative problems. There is an average of about 50 per chapter. There are also a number of worked examples in the chapters, averaging over 5 per chapter, and almost 600 photos and line drawings.


Biophysics

Biophysics

Author: Roland Glaser

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-10-22

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9783540670889

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Biophysics is the science of physical principles underlying the "phenomenon of life" on all levels of organization. This book begins by explaining molecular and ionic interactions, movements, excitation and energy transfer, and the self-organization of supramolecular structures. Then the biological organism is introduced as a non-equilibrium system. Finally, system analyses are discussed as well as environmental biophysics, ecological interactions, growth, differentiation, and evolution. A growing number of applications in biotechnology are based on these biophysical concepts.


Biophysics

Biophysics

Author: William Bialek

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 1400845572

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A physicist's guide to the phenomena of life Interactions between the fields of physics and biology reach back over a century, and some of the most significant developments in biology—from the discovery of DNA's structure to imaging of the human brain—have involved collaboration across this disciplinary boundary. For a new generation of physicists, the phenomena of life pose exciting challenges to physics itself, and biophysics has emerged as an important subfield of this discipline. Here, William Bialek provides the first graduate-level introduction to biophysics aimed at physics students. Bialek begins by exploring how photon counting in vision offers important lessons about the opportunities for quantitative, physics-style experiments on diverse biological phenomena. He draws from these lessons three general physical principles—the importance of noise, the need to understand the extraordinary performance of living systems without appealing to finely tuned parameters, and the critical role of the representation and flow of information in the business of life. Bialek then applies these principles to a broad range of phenomena, including the control of gene expression, perception and memory, protein folding, the mechanics of the inner ear, the dynamics of biochemical reactions, and pattern formation in developing embryos. Featuring numerous problems and exercises throughout, Biophysics emphasizes the unifying power of abstract physical principles to motivate new and novel experiments on biological systems. Covers a range of biological phenomena from the physicist's perspective Features 200 problems Draws on statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and related mathematical concepts Includes an annotated bibliography and detailed appendixes