Random Walks in Biology
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Random Walks in Biology

New and Expanded Edition

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 27 Nov |Learn more

Random Walks in Biology

New and Expanded Edition

About this book

This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility--subjects that become lively and immediate when the author discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface to the Expanded Edition
  6. Preface (1983)
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Diffusion: Microscopic Theory
  9. Chapter 2. Diffusion: Macroscopic Theory
  10. Chapter 3. Diffusion to Capture
  11. Chapter 4. Diffusion with Drift
  12. Chapter 5. Diffusion at Equilibrium
  13. Chapter 6. Movement of Self-propelled Objects
  14. Chapter 7. Other Random Walks
  15. Appendix A. Probabilities and Probability Distributions
  16. Appendix B. Differential Equations
  17. Appendix C Addendum to Chapter 6
  18. Appendix D Constants and Formulas
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index