Physics of life : the physicist's road to biology /
by Clas Blomberg.
- 1st ed.
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2007.
- 426 p. : ill.
The physics basics -- Concepts and numerical reference - Basics of classical (Newtonian) dynamics -- Electricity : the core of reductionism basis -- Quantum mechanics -- Basic thermodynamics -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Some trends in 20th century physics -- From the simple equilibrium to the complex -- Theoretical physics models : important analogies -- The biological molecules -- What is life? -- Thermodynamics formalism and examples : combinatorial expressions and Stirling's formula -- Examples of entropy and order/disorder -- Statistical thermodynamics models -- Probability concepts -- Stochastic processes -- Random walk -- Step processes : master equations -- Brownian motion : first description -- Diffusion and continuous stochastic processes -- Brownian motion and continuation -- Protein folding and structure dynamics -- Enzyme kinetics -- What does non-linearity do? -- Oscillations and space variation -- Deterministic chaos -- Noise and non-linear phenomena -- Recognition and selection in biological synthesis -- Brownian ratchet : unidirectional processes -- The neural system -- Origin of life -- Physics aspects of evolution -- Determinism and randomness -- Higher functions of life -- About the direction of time -- We live in the best of worlds : the anthropic principle. HKBU library