The Physical Basis of Biochemistry: The Foundations of Molecular BiophysicsThe objective of this book is to provide a unifying approach to the study of biophysical chemistry for the advanced undergraduate who has had a year of physics, organic chem istry, calculus, and biology. This book began as a revised edition of Biophysical Chemistry: Molecules to Membranes, which Elizabeth Simons and I coauthored. That short volume was written in an attempt to provide a concise text for a one-semester course in biophysical chemistry at the graduate level. The experience of teaching biophysical chemistry to bi ologically oriented students over the last decade has made it clear that the subject requires a more fundamental text that unifies the many threads of modem science: physics, chem istry, biology, mathematics, and statistics. This book represents that effort. This volume is not a treatment of modem biophysical chemistry with its rich history and many contro versies, although a book on that topic is also needed. The Physical Basis of Biochemistry is an introduction to the philosophy and practice of an interdisciplinary field in which biological systems are explored using the quantitative perspective of the physical scientist. I have three primary objectives in this volume: one, to provide a unifying picture of the interdisciplinary threads from which the tapestry of biophysical studies is woven; two, to provide an insight into the power of the modeling approach to scientific investigation; and three, to communicate a sense of excitement for the activity and wholesome argument that characterize this field of study. |
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 13 | |
Chapter | 18 |
Chapter | 20 |
Probability and Statistics | 27 |
Chapter | 32 |
EnergyThe Prime Observable | 43 |
Waves | 68 |
Energetics and the First | 175 |
Entropy | 187 |
Chapter 28 | 201 |
Chapter 30 | 236 |
Chapter 31 | 264 |
IonIon Interactions | 319 |
A More Rigorous Treatment of the DebyeHückel Model | 327 |
Constructing a Biological State Space | 346 |
Frequency | 74 |
Epilogue | 75 |
Electrostatics | 97 |
Chapter 14 | 101 |
Electromagnetics | 109 |
Quantum Mechanics | 125 |
Appendix D | 134 |
Part 5 | 136 |
Chapter 27 | 142 |
Chemical Principles | 158 |
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| Title | The Physical Basis of Biochemistry: The Foundations of Molecular Biophysics |
| Author | Peter R. Bergethon |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1475729634, 9781475729634 |
| Length | 567 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Chemistry / Organic Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry Science / Life Sciences / Biophysics |
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