Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry & Biology

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This reader-friendly introductory text on statistical thermodynamics is suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in physical chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, chemical engineering, polymer and materials science, bioengineering, and biophysics. The text makes extensive connections between experiments and familiar contexts, and aims to be accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds, with material on probabilities, approximations, partial derivatives, and the historical basis of thermodynamics. Coverage progresses from principles of probability and math tools through phase transitions and polymer elasticity. Dill teaches pharmaceutical chemistry and biophysics at the University of California-San Francisco. Bromberg writes and illustrates scientific textbooks.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR


David L. Beveridge, Wesleyan University
A real intellectual tour de force, and a pleasure to teach from.


Terrence G. Oas, Duke University
This is the most clearly written, insightful Physical Chemistry text available.


John Schellman, University of Oregon
The examples send the reader right out of textbook land and into interesting and current problems.


Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK
I found it very refreshing. Plausible examples are introduced at a very early stage.


Book Description
Molecular Driving Forces is an introductory statistical thermodynamics text that describes the principles and forces that drive chemical and biological processes. It shows how the complex behaviors of molecules can result from a few simple physical processes, and a central theme is how simple models can give surprisingly accurate insights into the workings of the molecular world. Written in a clear and reader-friendly style, the book gives an excellent introduction to the subject for novices. It should be useful to those who want to develop their understanding of this important field, seeing how physical principles can be applied to the study of modern problems in the chemical, biological, and materials sciences.


Book Info
Gives an excellent introduction to the field for novices. For those interested in seeing how physical principles can be applied to the study of problems in the chemical, biological, and material sciences.


About the Author
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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This reader-friendly introductory text on statistical thermodynamics is suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in physical chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, chemical engineering, polymer and materials science, bioengineering, and biophysics. The text makes extensive connections between experiments and familiar contexts, and aims to be accessible to students from a variety of backgrounds, with material on probabilities, approximations, partial derivatives, and the historical basis of thermodynamics. Coverage progresses from principles of probability and math tools through phase transitions and polymer elasticity. Dill teaches pharmaceutical chemistry and biophysics at the University of California-San Francisco. Bromberg writes and illustrates scientific textbooks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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