Physics of the Life Sciences

by: Jay Newman (Author)

Publisher: Springer
Edition:2008th

Publication Date: 9 Oct. 2008

Language: English

Print Length: 737 pages

ISBN-10: 0387772588

ISBN-13: 9780387772585

Book Description

Each chapter has three types of leaing aides for students:open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions, and quantitative problems. There is an average of about 50 per chapter. There are also a number of worked examples in the chapters, averaging over 5 per chapter, and almost 600 photos and line drawings.

About the Author

From the Back Cover Originally developed for the author’s course at Union College, this text is designed for life science students who need to understand the connections of fundamental physics to mode biology and medicine. Almost all areas of mode life sciences integrally involve physics in both experimental techniques and in basic understanding of structure and function. Physics of the Life Sciences is not a watered-down, algebra-based engineering physics book with sections on relevant biomedical topics added as an afterthought. This authoritative and engaging text, which is designed to be covered in a two-semester course, was written with a thoroughgoing commitment to the needs and interests of life science students. Although covering most of the standard topics in introductory physics in a more or less traditional sequence, the author gives added weight and space to concepts and applications of greater relevance to the life sciences. Students benefit from occasional sidebars using calculus to derive fundamental relations, but only algebra and trigonometry are used to explore the basic physical concepts in the main body of the text and to solve end-of-chapter problems.

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