01942cam a22002414a 4500 100429s2007 ne a b 001 0 eng 9780444527981 0444527982 SDU QH505 B653 P 2007 Blomberg, Clas. 202648 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 YT2025 M08 Biophysics. Biophysics. = C.1SDU GBE lcc 106589 106589 0 0 lcc 0 QH0505 B653 P2007 0 CGB 279415 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-27 2 0 QH505 B653 P 2007 1000370513 2025-08-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-27 GBE