This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility--subjects that become lively and immediate when the author discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles.
- ISBN10 1400810051
- ISBN13 9781400810055
- Publish Date 1 October 2001 (first published 21 February 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 152
- Language English