Clas Blomberg - Physics of life-Elsevier Science (2007)

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PHYSICS OF LIFEThe Physicist’s Road to BiologybyClas BlombergTheoretical Biological Physics Group (KTH)Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholm, SwedenAmsterdam • Boston • Heidelberg • London • New York • OxfordParis • San Diego • San Francisco • Singapore • Sydney • Tokyo
ElsevierRadarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The NetherlandsLinacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UKFirst edition 2007Copyright © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval systemor transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying,recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisherPermissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology RightsDepartment in Oxford, UK: phone (44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (44) (0) 1865 853333;email: permissions@elsevier.com. Alternatively you can submit your request online byvisiting the Elsevier web site at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions, and selectingObtaining permission to use Elsevier materialNoticeNo responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to personsor property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any useor operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the materialherein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independentverification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be madeLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataA catalog record is available from the Library of CongressBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record is available from the British LibraryISBN: 978-0-444-52798-1For information on all Elsevier publicationsvisit our website at books.elsevier.comPrinted and bound in The Netherlands0708091011 10987654321
Page 2 and 3: PHYSICS OF LIFEThe Physicist’s Ro
Page 6 and 7: ContentsPrefaceixPart I General int
Page 8 and 9: Contentsvii20E Birth-death process
Page 10 and 11: PrefaceFor me, the journey to the p
Page 12 and 13: Part IGeneral introduction§ 1 INTR
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Page 16 and 17: Chapter 2. The physics of life: phy
Page 28 and 29: Part IIThe physics basis§ 3 CONCEP
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Chapter 6. Quantum mechanics 61than
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Part IIIThe general trends and obje
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Chapter 13. What is life? 113Figure
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Part IVGoing further with thermodyn
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Part VStochastic dynamics§ 17 PROB
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Chapter 19. Random walk 183The tota
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Chapter 19. Random walk 185r in the
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Chapter 19. Random walk 189The sum
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Part VIMacromolecular applications
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Chapter 24. Protein folding and str
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Chapter 25. Enzyme kinetics 2550log
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Chapter 25. Enzyme kinetics 257and
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Chapter 25. Enzyme kinetics 265As f
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Part VIINon-linearity§ 26 WHAT DOE
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Chapter 26. What does non-linearity
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Part VIIIApplications§ 30 RECOGNIT
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Chapter 31. Brownian ratchet: unidi
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Chapter 32. The neural system 343Fi
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Chapter 33. Origin of life 351once
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Chapter 33. Origin of life 353It is
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Chapter 33. Origin of life 357What
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Part IXGoing further§ 34 PHYSICS A
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Chapter 34. Physics aspects of evol
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Chapter 38. We live in the best of
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ReferencesAbramowitz, M. and Stegun
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References 413Decroly, D. and Goldb
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References 415Hammerhoff, S. R., 19
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References 417Mosekilde, E., 1996.
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References 419Tsong, T. Y. and Chan
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Indexa-helix, 99s-bond, 50-51, 99d-
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Index 423Fibonacci series, 289, 291
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Index 425polar, 32, 97, 100, 102-10
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