Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences
This classroom-tested textbook is an innovative, comprehensive, and forward-looking introductory undergraduate physics course. While it clearly explains physical principles and equips the student with a full range of quantitative tools and methods, the material is firmly grounded in biological relev...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Undergraduate Texts in Physics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Vectors and kinematics
- Chapter 2. Force and momentum: Newton’s laws and how to apply them
- Chapter 3. Energy, work, geckos, and ATP
- Chapter 4. Probability distributions: Mutations, cancer rates and vision sensitivity
- Chapter 5. Random walks: Brownian motion and the tree of life
- Chapter 6. Diffusion: Membrane permeability and the rate of actin polymerization
- Chapter 7. Rates of change: drugs, infections, and weapons of mass destruction
- Chapter 8. Statistical Mechanics: Boltzmann factors, PCR, and Brownian ratchets
- Chapter 9. Fluid Mechanics: Laminar flow, blushing, and Murray’s Law
- Chapter 10. Oscillations and resonance
- Chapter 11. Wave equations: Strings and wind
- Chapter 12. Gauss’s law: Charges and electric fields
- Chapter 13. Electric potential, capacitors, and dielectrics
- Chapter 14. Circuits and dendrites: Charge conservation, Ohm’s law, rate equations, and other old friends
- Chapter 15. Optics: refraction, eyes, lenses, microscopes, and telescopes
- Chapter 16. Biologic: Genetic circuits and feedback
- Chapter 17. Magnetic fields and Ampere’s law
- Chapter 18. Faraday’s law and electromagnetic induction
- Chapter 19. Maxwell’s equations and then there was light