This advanced study book provides the tools for understanding elementary processes in biology. It also covers many concepts in modern biophysics such as entropic forces, phase separation, proton and electron transfer and potentials of mean force.

Introduces mathematical concepts in molecular biophysics

Offers detailed derivations of theoretical results of molecular biophysics

Covers a broad range of basic concepts in modern biophysics

Contains many exercises with fully worked-out solutions

Autorentext

Philipp Scherer received his PhD in experimental and theoretical physics in 1984 with Prof. Wolfgang Kaiser and Prof. Sighart Fischer in Munich. From 1985-1999 he was postdoc at Technische Universität München where he received his habilitation in theoretical physics in 1996. In 2001 and 2003 he spent several months as a visiting scientist at AIST in Tsukuba, Japan. Since 1999 he is lecturer at TUM, from 2006-2008 he was temporary leader of the institute for theoretical biomolecular physics at TUM , since 2008 he is adjunct professor at TUM. Sighart Fischer received his PhD in theoretical physics in 1965 with Professor F. Hund in Göttingen. From 1966-1969 he was postdoctoral fellow and instructor at Northwestern University and at the University of Chicago. From 1970-1974 he was professor at the Nortwestern University, Evanston, since 1974 Universitätsprofessor für Theoretische Physik at Technische Universität München, and since 2006 he is an emeritus of excellence.

Klappentext

Introduces mathematical concepts in molecular biophysics Offers detailed derivations of theoretical results of molecular biophysics Covers a broad range of basic concepts in modern biophysics Contains many exercises with fully worked-out solutions

Zusammenfassung

Introduces mathematical concepts in molecular biophysics

Offers detailed derivations of theoretical results of molecular biophysics

Covers a broad range of basic concepts in modern biophysics

Contains many exercises with fully worked-out solutions

Inhalt

Statistical Mechanics of Biopolymers.- Protein Electrostatics and Solvation.- Reaction Kinetics.- Transport Processes.- Reaction Rate Theory.- Elementary Photophysics.- Elementary Photoinduced Processes.- Molecular Motor Models.