Biophysics Searching for Principles

Applied Biophysics

This PDF covers the following topics related to Applied Biophysics : The Scope and Topics of Biophysics, The Main Targets of Biophysics, Thermodynamics and Biosystems, Statistical Physics of Biosystems, Mechanical and Chemical Equilibrium in Biosystems, Biological Processes and Entropy, Molecular Structures: The Shape of Molecules, Structure of Biosystems, The Building Blocks and Architecture of Cells, etc.

Author(s): Paata J. Kervalishvili

281 Pages

Biophysics Searching for Principles

This PDF covers the following topics related to Biophysics : Photon counting in vision, Noise isn’t negligible, No fine tuning, Efficient representation, Poisson processes, Correlations, Electronic transition in large molecules, Cooperativity, X–ray diffraction and biomolecular structure, Dimensionality reduction, Maximum entropy, Measuring information transmission.

Author(s): William Bialek

310 Pages

Theoretical Biophysics by Ulrich Schwarz

This PDF covers the following topics related to Biophysics : Review of some basic physics, Biomolecular interactions and dynamics, Electrostatistics and genome packing, Binding and assembly, Physics of membranes and red blood cells, Physics of polymers, Molecular motors, Diffusion, Reaction kinetics.

Author(s): Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics

237 Pages

Introduction to biophysics

This introductory note on biophysics introduces the principles of electrical excitability of cell membranes, which form the basis of all information processing in the nervous system. Topics covered includes: neurons and the brain, Electrical properties of cells, Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potentials, Synapses and Perceptrons.

Author(s): Bert Kappen

97 Pages