Random Walks in BiologyThis book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility--subjects that become lively and immediate when the author discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles. |
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adsorber apparatus applied average axis Berg boundary cell chamber channel Chapter cles cm/sec compute concentration Consider constant containing count depends derivation differential diffusion coefficient diffusion current direction discussed disk displacement distance distribution divided drag drift effective electrical ellipsoid energy equal equation equilibrium event example experiment expressed factor field flow fluid flux force fraction function given gradient half heads height increases initial integral interval ions kind larger length limit lines liquid mass mean measure medium membrane molecules moving Note obtain occur parti particles period phase plate Poisson position probability problem proportional radius random walk region released result rotational sedimentation separation shown in Fig solution specific sphere spherical square-root standard deviation statistics step successive sucrose surface temperature tion tubes tumble unit velocity viscous volume wander
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Page 145 - Brown DA. 1972. Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli analysed by threedimensional tracking.
Page 148 - Segall, JE, Block, SM, and Berg, HC (1986) Temporal comparisons in bacterial chemotaxis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83.
Page 148 - Zwanzig, R. (1990) Diffusion-controlled ligand binding to spheres partially covered by receptors: an effective medium treatment, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci USA 87, 5856-5857.
Page 145 - Berg. HC, and Turner, L. (1979). Movement of microorganisms in viscous environments. Nature (London} 278, 349-351.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Random Walks in Biology Princeton paperbacks |
| Author | Howard C. Berg |
| Editor | Howard C. Berg |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0691000646, 9780691000640 |
| Length | 152 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Life Sciences / Biology |
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