Random Walks in Biology: New and Expanded Edition

Random Walks in Biology: New and Expanded Edition
ISBN-10
1400820022
ISBN-13
9781400820023
Category
Science
Pages
166
Language
English
Published
2018-11-20
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Howard C. Berg

Description

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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