Buch, Englisch, 371 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 813 g
Reihe: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Buch, Englisch, 371 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 813 g
Reihe: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
ISBN: 978-3-540-85609-2
Verlag: Springer
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.
Zielgruppe
Graduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Statistical Mechanics of Biopolymers.- Random Walk Models for the Conformation.- Flory–Huggins Theory for Biopolymer Solutions.- Protein Electrostatics and Solvation.- Implicit Continuum Solvent Models.- Debye–Hückel Theory.- Protonation Equilibria.- Reaction Kinetics.- Formal Kinetics.- Kinetic Theory: Fokker–Planck Equation.- Kramers’ Theory.- Dispersive Kinetics.- Transport Processes.- Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics.- Simple Transport Processes.- Ion Transport Through a Membrane.- Reaction–Diffusion Systems.- Reaction Rate Theory.- Equilibrium Reactions.- Calculation of Reaction Rates.- Marcus Theory of Electron Transfer.- Elementry Photophysis.- Molecular States.- Optical Transitions.- The Displaced Harmonic Oscillator Model.- Spectral Diffusion.- Crossing of Two Electronic States.- Dynamics of an Excited State.- Elementry Photoinduced Processes.- Photophysics of Chlorophylls and Carotenoids.- Incoherent Energy Transfer.- Coherent Excitations in Photosynthetic Systems.- Ultrafast Electron Transfer Processes in the Photosynthetic Reaction Center.- Proton Transfer in Biomolecules.- Molecular Motor Models.- Continuous Ratchet Models.- Discrete Ratchet Models.- The Grand Canonical Ensemble.- Time Correlation Function of the Displaced Harmonic Oscillator Model.- The Saddle Point Method.
