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Random Walks in Biology

Howard C. Berg
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Autocorrelation
Available energy (particle collision)
Bacteria
Biology
Boltzmann constant
Boltzmann distribution
Boltzmann equation
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Calculation
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Centimetre-gram-second system of units
Charge density
Clockwise
Degrees of freedom (mechanics)
Degrees of freedom (statistics)
Density gradient
Differential equation
Diffusion current
Diffusion equation
Drag coefficient
Drift velocity
Effective mass (solid-state physics)
Electric field
Electron acceptor
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Error analysis (mathematics)
Expectation value (quantum mechanics)
Fermi-Dirac statistics
Mass diffusivity
Mathematics
Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics
Mean free path
Membrane potential
Methyl cellulose
Molecular diffusion
Molecular mass
Molecular sieve
Molecule
Natural logarithm
Normal distribution
Partial derivative
Partition chromatography
Partition coefficient
Partition function (statistical mechanics)
Photon
Poisson distribution
Probability
Probability distribution
Probability theory
Proportionality (mathematics)
Random walk
Replication (statistics)
Reynolds number
Rotational diffusion
Scale height
Sedimentation
Semi-major and semi-minor axes
Solution
Specific gravity
Square root
Standard deviation
Statistical mechanics
Statistical physics
Steady state
Stokes' law
Sucrose
Thermal fluctuations
Variable (mathematics)
Viscosity

Product details

  • ISBN 9780691279893
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Oct 2025
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A landmark account of the dynamics of living systems and the methods for studying them

Random Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. Howard Berg offers an essential foundation for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, and cells as well as the processes that are affected by such motions. Using the concept of “random walks” of individual particles, Berg illuminates the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility. With an engaging foreword by theoretical biophysicist William Bialek, this Princeton Science Library edition can serve as a supplementary text for courses on biochemistry, molecular biology, biomechanics, physiology, biophysics, and physical chemistry. It is also an ideal reference volume.
About Howard C. Berg
Howard C. Berg (1934–2021) was the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University. William Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University.

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