Random Walks in Biology : : New and Expanded Edition / / Howard C. Berg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Berg, Howard C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400820023; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400820023?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Howard C. Berg.

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.