Physical Chemistry: Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (December 29, 2022) © 2014

  • Ignacio Tinoco University of California, Berkeley
  • Kenneth Sauer University of California, Berkeley
  • James C. Wang Harvard University
  • Joseph D. Puglisi Stanford University
  • Gerard Harbison University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • David Rovnyak Bucknell University

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Title overview

Written specifically for the life-science student, the Fifth Edition of the bestselling Physical Chemistry: Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences covers core aspects of biophysical chemistry–while showing how biochemists and biophysicists use principles of physical vhemistry to solve real problems in biological systems.

 

Table of contents

Brief Contents

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: The First Law: Energy is Conserved
  • Chapter 3: The Second Law: The Entropy of the Universe Increases
  • Chapter 4: Free Energy and Chemical Equilibria
  • Chapter 5: The Statistical Foundations of Biophysical Chemistry
  • Chapter 6: Physical Equilibria
  • Chapter 7: Electrochemistry
  • Chapter 8: The Motion of Biological Molecules
  • Chapter 9: Kinetics: Rates of Chemical Reactions
  • Chapter 10: Enzyme Kinetics
  • Chapter 11: Molecular Structures and Interactions: Theory
  • Chapter 12: Molecular Structures and Interactions: Biomolecules
  • Chapter 13: Optical Spectroscopy
  • Chapter 14: Magnetic Resonance
  • Chapter 15: Macromolecular Structure and X-Ray Diffraction

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