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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ISBN-13: 9780137612826 (2022 update)

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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.

 

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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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