Random walks in biology
"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, electrophore…
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- Full title :Random walks in biology / Howard C. Berg.
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"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"--Back cover.
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- Publication Date:1993.
- Edition:Expanded ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993.
The Physical Object
- Description:152 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691000646, 9780691000640
- oclc:ocm27810154
- LC Classification:QH323.5
- Dewey Decimal:574/.01/519282
Table of Contents
1. Diffusion: Microscopic theory -- 2. Diffusion: Macroscopic theory -- 3. Diffusion to capture -- 4. Diffusion with drift -- 5. Diffusion at equilibrium -- 6. Movement of self-propelled objects -- 7. Other random walks -- Appendix A. Probabilities and probability distributions -- Appendix B. Differential equations -- Appendix C. Addendum to chapter 6 -- Appendix D. Constants and formulas.
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