Introduction to biological physics for the health and life sciences / Kirsten Franklin ... [et al.]. -- 2nd ed. -- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019. – (58.171054/F832/2nd ed.) |
Contents
I Mechanics
CHAPTER
1 Kinematics
CHAPTER
2 Force and Newton's Laws of
Motion
CHAPTER
3 Motion in a Circle
CHAPTER
4 Statics
CHAPTER
5 Energy
CHAPTER
6 Momentum
CHAPTER
7 Simple Harmonic Motion
CHAPTER
8 Waves
CHAPTER
9 Sound and Hearing
II Solids and Fluids
CHAPTER
10 Elasticity: Stress and Strain
CHAPTER 11 Pressure
CHAPTER
12 Buoyancy
CHAPTER
13 Surface Tension and
Capillarity
CHAPTER
14 Fluid Dynamics of Non-viscous
Fluids
CHAPTER
15 Fluid Dynamics of Viscous
Fluids
CHAPTER
16 Molecular Transport Phenomena
III Thermodynamics
CHAPTER
17 Temperature and the Zeroth Law
CHAPTER
18 Ideal Gases
CHAPTER
19 Phase and Temperature Change
CHAPTER 20 Water Vapour and the Atmosphere
CHAPTER
21 Heat Transfer
CHAPTER
22 Thermodynamics and the Body
CHAPTER
23 Thermodynamic Processes in
Ideal Gases
CHAPTER
24 Heat Engines And Entropy
CHAPTER
25 Energy Availability and Thermodynamic
IV Electricity and DC Circuits
CHAPTER
26 Static Electricity.
CHAPTER
27 Electric Force and Electric
Field
CHAPTER
28 Electrical Potential and
Energy
CHAPTER
29 Capacitance
CHAPTER
30 Direct
Currents and DC Circuits
CHAPTER
31 Time Behaviour of RC Circuits
V Optics
CHAPTER
32 The Nature of Light
CHAPTER
33 Geometric Optics
CHAPTER
34 The Eye and Vision
CHAPTER
35 Wave Optics
CHAPTER
36 Advanced Geometric Optics
CHAPTER
37 Optical Instruments
VI Radiation and Health
CHAPTER
38 Atoms and Atomic Physics
CHAPTER
39 The Nucleus and Nuclear
Physics
CHAPTER 40 Production of Ionising Radiation
CHAPTER
41 Interactions of Ionising
Radiation
CHAPTER
42 Biological Effects of Ionising
Radiation
CHAPTER
43 Medical Imaging
CHAPTER
44 Magnetism and MRI
Appendices
APPENDIX
A Physical Constants
APPENDIX
B Basic Maths and Science Skills
APPENDIX
C Answers To Odd Numbered
Problems
SELECTED
FURTHER READING
INDEX