Random walks in biology / Howard C. Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Howard C., 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biometry.

Random walks (Mathematics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface to the Expanded Edition

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Diffusion: Microscopic Theory

Chapter 2. Diffusion: Macroscopic Theory

Chapter 3. Diffusion to Capture

Chapter 4. Diffusion with Drift

Chapter 5. Diffusion at Equilibrium

Chapter 6. Movement of Self-propelled Objects

Chapter 7. Other Random Walks

Appendix A. Probabilities and Probability Distributions

Appendix B. Differential Equations

Appendix C. Addendum to Chapter 6

Appendix D. Constants and Formulas

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-148) and index.

ISBN:

9781400820023

1400820022

OCLC:

232189934