Random Walks in Biology (eBook)

Howard C. Berg (Autor)

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2025
211 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-27988-6 (ISBN)

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A landmark account of the dynamics of living systems and the methods for studying themRandom Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. Howard Berg offers an essential foundation for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, and cells as well as the processes that are affected by such motions. Using the concept of ';random walks' of individual particles, Berg illuminates the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility. With an engaging foreword by theoretical biophysicist William Bialek, this Princeton Science Library edition can serve as a supplementary text for courses on biochemistry, molecular biology, biomechanics, physiology, biophysics, and physical chemistry. It is also an ideal reference volume.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Schlagworte: 0E • Adsorption • Arbitrary unit • autocorrelation • Available energy (particle collision) • Bacteria • Biology • Boltzmann constant • Boltzmann distribution • Boltzmann equation • C0 • Calculation • Centimetre–gram–second system of units • Charge Density • clockwise • Degrees of freedom (mechanics) • Degrees of freedom (statistics) • Density gradient • differential equation • diffusion current • Diffusion Equation • drag coefficient • Drift velocity • Effective mass (solid-state physics) • Electric Field • Electron Acceptor • Error analysis (Mathematics) • Expectation value (quantum mechanics) • Fermi–Dirac statistics • Mass diffusivity • Mathematics • Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics • mean free path • membrane potential • Methyl cellulose • molecular diffusion • Molecular mass • molecular sieve • Molecule • natural logarithm • Normal distribution • partial derivative • Partition chromatography • Partition coefficient • Partition function (statistical mechanics) • Photon • Poisson distribution • Probability • Probability Distribution • Probability Theory • Proportionality (mathematics) • Random Walk • Replication (statistics) • Reynolds Number • Rotational diffusion • scale height • Sedimentation • Semi-major and semi-minor axes • Solution • specific gravity • square root • standard deviation • Statistical Mechanics • Statistical Physics • Steady state • Stokes' law • sucrose • Thermal fluctuations • Variable (mathematics) • viscosity
• ISBN-10: 0-691-27988-8 / 0691279888
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-27988-6 / 9780691279886