Biophysics: An Introduction

By Roland Glaser

Book Overview

Biophysics is the science of physical principles underlying all processes of life, including the dynamics and kinetics of biological systems.This fully revised 2nd English edition is an introductory... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540670882
• ISBN13: 9783540670889
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Science

I don't believe it. This book addresses self-organization, a term the scientific community has thoroughly confused with self-ordering events. Self-organization of physicodynamics unto a formal function has never been observed. Self-ordering events occur everyday in accordance to physical laws. [...]

good introductory work

This is a very thoroughly written introductory work for biophysics, an area where it is very difficult indeed to find intro-level textbooks. Both biologists and physicists will find many new things worth exploring, and this book will certainly provide the basics for further research and study. It isn't the ten volume all-you-will-ever-want-to-know-about-biophysics, but whichever area You are starting to work with, from membrane transport to biomechanics, have a look at this book first.

Excellent starting for Biophysics

This book is written by a biologist. However, the author discussed lots of physics topics closely related to basic biological phenomena. The most important role of this book, I believe, is making the bridge between physics and biology as well as biochemistry. Untill now, most of biophyiscs text books have been a kind of biochemsitry text book like ones. This one is distingusihed from those. This is also good for biochemistry student who wants to study physical aspects of biological system beyond the scope of biochemistry. Some parts of this book might be difficult for biology and biochemistry students but surely deserves to be read.