Physics of Life

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ISBN10: 0309274001
ISBN13: 9780309274005
Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
Published: Jan 22 2023
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics and cosmology, atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and plasma physics. This new field brings the physicist's style of inquiry to bear on the beautiful phenomena of life. The enormous range of phenomena encountered in living systems - phenomena that often have no analog or precedent in the inanimate world - means that the intellectual agenda of biological physics is exceptionally broad, even by the ambitious standards of physics.

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