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Daniel M. Zuckerman
ISBN: 9781420073782
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
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Designed especially for students from non-physics and non-chemistry backgrounds, this book covers elementary statistical mechanics and the thermodynamics necessary to understand fundamental biophysical phenomena, maintaining a probabilistic view throughout. It explains the theory behind interpreting the physics and statistics of many experiments.
It is essential for modern students of molecular behavior to understand the statistical/chemical physics at the heart of modern molecular science. But traditional presentations of this material are often difficult to penetrate. This volume brings "down to earth" some of the most intimidating but important theories of molecular biophysics. Students build understanding by focusing on topics such as probability theory, low-dimensional models, and the simplest molecular systems. The book's accessible development of equilibrium and dynamical statistical physics makes this a valuable text for students with limited physics and chemistry backgrounds.
| ISBN | 1420073788 | | Pages | 356 | | ISBN13 | 9781420073782
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 644 | | Imprint | CRC Press Inc | | Published in | Bosa Roca | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Publication date | 04 Jun 2010 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 572 | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Undergraduate |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | Chapter 1 | | Proteins Don't Know Biology | | 1 | | 1.1 | | Prologue: Statistical Physics of Candy, Dirt, and Biology | | 1 | | 1.1.1 | | Candy | | 1 | | 1.1.2 | | Clean Your House, Statistically | | 2 | | 1.1.3 | | More Seriously | | 3 | | 1.2 | | Guiding Principles | | 4 | | 1.2.1 | | Proteins Don't Know Biology | | 4 | | 1.2.2 | | Nature Has Never Heard of Equilibrium | | 4 | | 1.2.3 | | Entropy is Easy | | 5 | | 1.2.4 | | Three is the Magic Number for Visualizing Data | | 5 | | 1.2.5 | | Experiments Cannot Be Separated from "Theory" | | 5 | | 1.3 | | About This Book | | 5 | | 1.3.1 | | What is Biomolecular Statistical Physics? | | 5 | | 1.3.2 | | What's in This Book, and What's Not | | 6 | | 1.3.3 | | Background Expected of the Student | | 7 | | 1.4 | | Molecular Prologue: A Day in the Life of Butane | | 7 | | 1.4.1 | | Exemplary by Its Stupidity | | 9 | | 1.5 | | What Does Equilibrium Mean to a Protein? | | 9 | | 1.5.1 | | Equilibrium among Molecules | | 9 | | 1.5.2 | | Internal Equilibrium | | 10 | | 1.5.3 | | Time and Population Averages | | 11 | | 1.6 | | A Word on Experiments | | 11 | | 1.7 | | Making Movies: Basic Molecular Dynamics Simulation | | 12 | | 1.8 | | Basic Protein Geometry | | 14 | | 1.8.1 | | Proteins Fold | | 14 | | | More... | | |
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