Molecular Driving Forces

Description

Molecular Driving Forces, Second Edition is an introductory statistical thermodynamics text that describes the principles and forces that drive chemical and biological processes. The second edition includes an additional chapter on thermodynamics and two new chapters: (1)"Microscopic Dynamics" which explores single molecule experiments; and (2) "Bio and Nano Machines" which describes the workings of biological molecules including proteins and DNA. New examples and practical applications are integrated throughout the revised and updated text, exploring topics in biology, environmental and energy science, and nanotechnology. It also includes new end-of-chapter problems, and purely mathematical topics are now in appendices. Written in a clear and reader-friendly style, the book provides an excellent introduction to the subject for novices while remaining a valuable resource for experts.

Contents

1. Principles of Probability

2. Extremum Principles Predict Equilibria

3. Heat, Work & Energy

4. Multivariate Calculus

5. Entropy & the Boltzmann Law

6. Thermodynamic Driving Forces

7. The Logic of Thermodynamics

8. Laboratory Conditions & Free Energies

9. General Forces, Maxwell's Relations & Mixtures

10. The Statistical Mechanics of Simple Gases & Solids

11. What Is Temperature? What Is Heat Capacity?

12. Chemical Equilibria

13. Equilibria Between Liquids, Solids, & Gases

14. Solutions & Mixtures

15. The Solvation & Transfer of Molecules Between Phases

16. Physical Kinetics: Diffusion, Permeation & Flow

17. Microscopic Dynamics

18. Chemical Kinetics & Transition States

19. Coulomb's Law of Electrostatic Forces

20. The Electrostatic Potential

21. Electrochemical Equilibria

22. Salt Ions Shield Charged Objects in Solution

23. Intermolecular Interactions

24. Phase Transitions

25. Cooperativity: The Landau, Ising & Helix-Coil Models

26. Adsorption, Binding & Catalysis

27. Multi-site & Cooperative Ligand Binding

28. Bio & Nano Machines

29. Water

30. Water as a Solvent

31. Polymer Solutions

32. Polymer Elasticity & Collapse

33. Polymers Resist Confinement & Deformation

Appendices

Author Bio

Ken A. Dill is Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his undergraduate training at MIT, his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and did postdoctoral work at Stanford. A leading researcher in biopolymer statistical mechanics and protein folding, he has been the President of the Biophysical Society and received the Hans Neurath Award from the Protein Society in 1998.

Sarina Bromberg received her BFA at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, her PhD in molecular biophysics from Wesleyan University, and her postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. She writes, edits and illustrates scientific textbooks.

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1. Biochemistry