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- Introduces biophysics with an engaging and readable style, while maintaining scientific rigour
- Offers a wide subject coverage, with a unique macro-micro-macro logical path
- Uses a minimum of maths and molecular chemistry, while providing essential knowledge of cell and structural biology
- Enriched with more than 200 figures and diagrams, and about 100 end-of-chapter problems with full solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In this book, physics in its many aspects (thermodynamics, mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics) is the guiding light on a fascinating journey through biological systems, providing ideas, examples and stimulating reflections for undergraduate physics, chemistry and life-science students, as well as for anyone interested in the frontiers between physics and biology.
Rather than introducing a lot of new information, it encourages young students to use their recently acquired knowledge to start seeing the physics behind the biology. As an undergraduate textbook in introductory biophysics, it includes the necessary background and tools, including exercises and appendices, to form a progressive course. In this case, the chapters can be used in the order proposed, possibly split between two semesters.
The book is also an absorbing read for researchers in the life sciences who wish to refresh or go deeper into the physics concepts gleaned in their early years of scientific training. Less physics-oriented readers might want to skip the first chapter, as well as all the "gray boxes" containing the more formal developments, and create their own á-la-carte menu of chapters.
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Authors and Affiliations
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IEMN, CNRS UMR8520, Université de Lille I Sciences et Techno, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Fabrizio Cleri
About the author
The author is maintaining a website at physicsoflife.net which contains many additional resources for both the students and the instructors:
• high-resolution version of all non-copyrighted images in various formats, including OpenOffice slides;
• more complete solutions to all the end-of-chapter problems, as well as additional “questions-and-answers” students’ self-examination checklists;
• a set of C++ computer programs for some of the mathematical models described in the book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Physics of Living Systems
Authors: Fabrizio Cleri
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30647-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30645-2Published: 14 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80858-1Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30647-6Published: 08 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 620
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 173 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Bioorganic Chemistry, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Human Physiology, Animal Physiology