The Physics Of Living Systems

Author : Fabrizio Cleri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319306472
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Living Systems written by Fabrizio Cleri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-08 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip Nelson
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319036902
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical Models of Living Systems written by Philip Nelson and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for intermediate-level undergraduates pursuing any science or engineering major, Physical Models of Living Systems helps students develop many of the competencies that form the basis of the new MCAT2015. The only prerequisite is first-year physics. With the more advanced "Track-2" sections at the end of each chapter, the book can be used in graduate-level courses as well.

Author : Thomas Andrew Waigh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118449940
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Living Processes written by Thomas Andrew Waigh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-colour undergraduate textbook, based on a two semester course, presents the fundamentals of biological physics, introducing essential modern topics that include cells, polymers, polyelectrolytes, membranes, liquid crystals, phase transitions, self-assembly, photonics, fluid mechanics, motility, chemical kinetics, enzyme kinetics, systems biology, nerves, physiology, the senses, and the brain. The comprehensive coverage, featuring in-depth explanations of recent rapid developments, demonstrates this to be one of the most diverse of modern scientific disciplines. The Physics of Living Processes: A Mesoscopic Approach is comprised of five principal sections: • Building Blocks • Soft Condensed Matter Techniques in Biology • Experimental Techniques • Systems Biology • Spikes, Brains and the Senses The unique focus is predominantly on the mesoscale — structures on length scales between those of atoms and the macroscopic behaviour of whole organisms. The connections between molecules and their emergent biological phenomena provide a novel integrated perspective on biological physics, making this an important text across a variety of scientific disciplines including biophysics, physics, physical chemistry, chemical engineering and bioengineering. An extensive set of worked tutorial questions are included, which will equip the reader with a range of new physical tools to approach problems in the life sciences from medicine, pharmaceutical science and agriculture.

Author : Paola Lecca
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351374311
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Physics for Biological Systems written by Paola Lecca and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum physics provides the concepts and their mathematical formalization that lend themselves to describe important properties of biological networks topology, such as vulnerability to external stress and their dynamic response to changing physiological conditions. A theory of networks enhanced with mathematical concepts and tools of quantum physics opens a new area of biological physics, the one of systems biological physics.

Author : James G. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Systems written by James G. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jesper Hoffmeyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402067062
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Legacy for Living Systems written by Jesper Hoffmeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revise this deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. The idea that organismic life is indeed basically semiotic or communicative lies at the heart of the biosemiotic approach to the study of life. The only book of its kind, this volume provides a key resource for the quickly-growing substratum of scholars in the biosciences, philosophy and medicine who are seeking an elegant new approach to exploring highly complex systems.

Author : Paul Davidovits
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123694116
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics in Biology and Medicine written by Paul Davidovits and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing and other applied health fields. It includes many figures, examples and illustrative problems and appendices which provide convenient access to the most important concepts of mechanics, electricity, and optics.

Author : N. Bellomo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0817645101
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modeling Complex Living Systems written by N. Bellomo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops different mathematical methods and tools to model living systems. This book presents material that can be used in such real-world applications as immunology, transportation engineering, and economics. It is of interest to those involved in modeling complex social systems and living matter in general.

Author : Mark L. Latash
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128192852
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics of Biological Action and Perception written by Mark L. Latash and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics of Biological Action and Perception helps researchers interested in exploring biological motor control from a physics or alternative viewpoint perspective. The book introduces the idea of parametric control as a distinguishing feature of living systems. Sections cover how the CNS creates stable percepts based on fuzzy and continuously changing signals from numerous receptors and the variable processes related to ongoing actions. The author also develops the idea of control with referent coordinates to stability of salient variables in fields typically united under the label of "cognition." Examples of this include communication (how the gist of a message is preserved despite variability of phrases), thought processes (how one can solve a mental problem via different logical routes), and playing chess (how one selects an optimal move given a position on the board). The book is written for researchers, instructors, clinicians and other professionals in all the fields related to biological movement and perception. Presents a unifying theory of motor control based on physics Encompasses action, perception and cognition Discusses referent coordinates, kinesthetic perception and stability of actions Identifies the importance of the CNS over computational brain function

Author : R.K. Mishra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400918909
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Molecular and Biological Physics of Living Systems written by R.K. Mishra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The living organisms and systems possess extraordinary properties of programmed development, differentiation, growth, response, movement, duplication of key molecules and in m any cases higher mental functions. But the organisms are physical objects so they must follow laws of physics yet they do not seem to obey them. Physicists cannot easily persuade themselves to accept this as finally true. Non-living objects are governed by these laws of physics and they can explain these properties. However, in the living systems too phenomena encountered like coupled non-linear interactions, manybody effects, cooperativity, coherence, phase transitions, reversible metastable states are being understood better with the aid of powerful theoretical and experimental techniques and hope is raised that these may let us understand the mysteriousness of life. Contributors to this volume are a small fraction of rapidly growing scientific opinion that these aspects of living bodies are to be expected in a hitherto inadequately suspected state of matter which is in the main directed by these physical properties pushed almost to limit. This state of matter, the living matter, deserves to be called The Living State. Mishra proposes that given hydrogenic orbitals, atoms showing easy hybridisability and multiple valances, molecules with low-lying electronic levels, "loosestructure", and a metabolic pump in thermodynamically open system, various fundamental properties of living state can emerge automatically. Structurally these are all known to be present.