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Physics of life: the physicist's road to biology

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9510

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

English

First Statement of Responsibility

Blomberg, Clas

Title Proper

Physics of life: the physicist's road to biology

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Amsterdam

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Elsevier

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

7002

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x, 426 p. : ill.

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Includes bibliographical references )p. 411-419( and index

Text of Note

by Clas Blomberg

Text of Note

The physics basics -- Concepts and numerical reference - Basics of classical )Newtonian( dynamics -- Electricity : the core of reductionism basis -- Quantum mechanics -- Basic thermodynamics -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Some trends in 02th century physics -- From the simple equilibrium to the complex -- Theoretical physics models : important analogies -- The biological molecules -- What is life? -- Thermodynamics formalism and examples : combinatorial expressions and Stirling's formula -- Examples of entropy and order/disorder -- Statistical thermodynamics models -- Probability concepts -- Stochastic processes -- Random walk -- Step processes : master equations -- Brownian motion : first description -- Diffusion and continuous stochastic processes -- Brownian motion and continuation -- Protein folding and structure dynamics -- Enzyme kinetics -- What does non-linearity do? -- Oscillations and space variation -- Deterministic chaos -- Noise and non-linear phenomena -- Recognition and selection in biological synthesis -- Brownian ratchet : unidirectional processes -- The neural system -- Origin of life -- Physics aspects of evolution -- Determinism and randomness -- Higher functions of life -- About the direction of time -- We live in the best of worlds : the anthropic principle

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، Biophysics

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