| View Larger Image | Molecular and Cellular Biophysics | Paperbackby Meyer B. Jackson (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 512 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 20, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 439,625th |
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Product Description
Providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a foundation in the basic concepts of biophysics, students who have taken physical chemistry and calculus courses will find this book an accessible and valuable aid in learning how these concepts can be used in biological research. The text provides a rigorous treatment of the fundamental theories in biophysics and illustrates their application with examples including protein folding, enzyme catalysis and ion channel permeation. Through these examples, students will gain an understanding of the general importance and broad applicability of biophysical principles to biological problems. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)
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Great book to use on your own by Donna Y (Philadelphia, PA)  4 Stars
August 25, 2009
I am doing research in biophysics and wanted a book that I could use as a review in my spare time. The book refreshed me on topics outside my immediate research area. This is useful because sometimes ideas for my research come from other sources. I enjoyed reviewing topics I already saw in my graduate classes years ago. I also learned a few new things as this book went into greater detail. I liked how it has problems at the end of each chapter. However I could not check my progress as there is no answer key. I think it would make a good senior level undergraduate text or a first year graduate text.
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Biophysics by Einkaufskarte (Switzerland)  5 Stars
January 14, 2008
This is a well written text book for students and researchers teaching basic concepts of biophysics. Especially biological membranes are dealed with comprehensively. The figures are easy to understand and the price is rather low. Actually it is the best book of this kind I encountered. It can be highly recommended.
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Very inclusive graduate level text by John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV) 5 Stars
April 18, 2006
This book is aimed at providing the advanced undergraduate student or beginning graduate student a solid foundation in the basic concepts of molecular and cellular biophysics. I would suggest that this course be given prerequisites in physical chemistry and a very solid math background.
To cover the math background the author has added six appendicies to the book covering: expansions and series, matrix algebra, Fourier analysis, gaussian integrals, hyperbolic functions, polar and spherical coordinates. All of this is covered in only 16 pages. You would have to be a lot better than I was to learn Fourier analysis in only four pages. In undergraduate school I had full semester course in Fourier analysis, and it was by no means the first math class that I took. Perhaps I was just slower than today's students. But in my mind learning all this math from the appendicies while studing the rest of the material in this book would be asking a lot of an undergraduate student.
More important than the math, the author says, is having some knowledge of physical chemistry to include thermodynamics, kinetics, and statistical mechanics. And finally he assumes that the student has had some exposure to biochemistry.
Having gotten that out of the way, the central theme of the book is of course what it says in the title. This is an excellent and very inclusive text. The author ranges far and wide to bring up as many different aspects of biophysics as possible. It is very current in its coverage of material on subjects not found in other texts.
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