Description
Physical Biology of the Cell is a textbook for a first course in physical biology or biophysics for undergraduate or graduate students. It maps the huge and complex landscape of cell and molecular biology from the distinct perspective of physical biology. As a key organizing principle, the proximity of topics is based on the physical concepts that
Table of Contents
Part I: The Facts of Life1. Why: Biology by the Numbers 2. What and Where 3. When: Stopwatches at Many Scales 4. Who: "Bless the Little Beasties"Part II: Life at Rest5. Mechanical and Chemical Equilibrium 6. Entropy Rules! 7. Two-State Systems 8. Random Walks and the Structure of Macromolecules 9. Electrostatics for Salty Solutions 10. Beam Theory 11. Biological MembranesPart III: Life in Motion12. The Mathematics of Water 13. A Statistical View of Biological Dynamics14. Crowded and Disordered Environments 15. Rate Equations and Dynamics in the Cell 16. Dynamics of Molecular Motors 17. Biological Electricity 18. Light and Life - NEW CHAPTERPart IV: The Meaning of Life19. Organization of Biological Networks20. Biological Patterns: Order in Space and Time - NEW CHAPTER21. Sequences, Specificity, and Evolution 22. Whither Physical Biology?
