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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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Physical Chemistry is a guide to core aspects of biophysical chemistry. It will show you how biochemists and biophysicists use principles of physical chemistry to solve real problems in biological systems. You'll learn practical tools to apply to solving biological systems problems.

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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