Overview
- Comprehensive textbook on all the aspects of theoretical molecular biophysics.- Includes exercises and problems.- Provides a rigorous background in terms of statistical physics and quantum chemical physics selected for the understanding of biological systems, their equilibrium properties and dynamical aspects on a molecular level.- Specific applications relate to molecular machines and elementary processes in photosynthesis.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Statistical Mechanics of Biopolymers
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Protein Electrostatics and Solvation
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Reaction Kinetics
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Transport Processes
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Reaction Rate Theory
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From the book reviews:
“This is a good text deriving formulae of interest to Biophysicists, students of mathematics, fellows, and theoretical physicists. The dynamic predicate calculus and differential forms inc. Kramer’s Rules and Theorems are defined and further developed in sequential linear theory.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, August, 2014)
“Biophysics is a fast growing area at the interface between physics and biology … . The book by Scherer and Fischer is a first attempt in this direction. Their effort is laudable. … The book will be a useful text for students and researchers wanting to go through the mathematical derivations in the theories presented. … this book will attract a group of applied mathematically oriented students and scholars to the exciting field of molecular biophysics.” (Hong Qian, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 c)
“Intended for graduate students, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics by Philipp Scherer and Sighart Fischer grew out of a biophysics course taught by the authors in the physics department of the Technical University of Munich. … A striking feature of Theoretical Molecular Biophysics is the large number of equations relative to text … . chapters close with challenging problems whose solutions are provided at the end of the book. … The book closes with an interesting review of molecular-motor models.” (H. Richard Leuchtag, Physics Today, May, 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical Molecular Biophysics
Authors: Philipp Scherer, Sighart F. Fischer
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85610-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26411-5Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85610-8Published: 27 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 371
Number of Illustrations: 247 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics, Engineering, general