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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Chemical Binding | |
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| Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Pauli Exclusion Principle | |
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| Ionization Energy, Electron Affinity and Chemical Binding | |
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| Electronegativity and Strong Bonds | |
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| Secondary Bonds | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Energies, Forces and Bonds | |
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| Interatomic Potentials for Strong Bonds | |
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| Interatomic Potentials for Weak Bonds | |
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| Non-central Forces | |
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| Bond Energies | |
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| Spring Constants | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Rates of Reaction | |
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| Free Energy | |
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| Internal Energy | |
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| Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics | |
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| Reaction Kinetics | |
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| Water, Acids, Bases and Aqueous Reactions | |
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| Radiation Energy | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Transport Processes | |
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| Diffusion | |
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| Viscosity | |
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| Thermal Conduction | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Some Techniques and Methods | |
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| X-Ray Diffraction and Molecular Structure | |
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| Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | |
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| Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy | |
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| Atomic Force Microscopy | |
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| Optical Tweezers | |
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| Patch Clamping | |
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| Molecular Dynamics | |
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| Potential Energy Contour Tracing | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Biological Polymers | |
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| Nucleic Acids | |
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| Nucleic Acid Conformation: DNA | |
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| Nucleic Acid Conformation: RNA | |
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| Proteins | |
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| Protein Folding | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Biological Membranes | |
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| Historical Background | |
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| Membrane Chemistry and Structure | |
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| Membrane Physics | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Biological Energy | |
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| Energy Consumption | |
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| Respiration | |
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| Photosynthesis | |
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| ATP Synthesis | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Movement of Organisms | |
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| Bacterial Motion | |
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| Chemical Memory in Primitive Organisms | |
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| Muscular Movement | |
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| Human Performance | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Excitable Membranes | |
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| Diffusion and Mobility of Ions | |
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| Resting Potential | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Nerve Signals | |
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| Passive Response | |
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| Nerve Impulses (Action Potentials) | |
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| The Nervous System | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Memory | |
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| Hebbian Learning | |
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| Neural Networks | |
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| Auto-association | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Control of Movement | |
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| The Primacy of Movement | |
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| Ballistic Control in a Simplified Visual System | |
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| More Sophisticated Modes of Control | |
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| The Heterogeneous Structure of Muscle Fibres | |
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| Central Pattern Generators | |
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| Conditioned Reflexes | |
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| Volition and Free Will | |
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| What Purpose Does Consciousness Serve? | |
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| Passive versus Active in Mental Processing | |
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| The Relevant Anatomy and Physiology | |
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| Intelligence and Creativity | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Elements of Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Quantization of Energy | |
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| Atomic Structure | |
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| The Wave Equation | |
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| Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Hydrogen Atom | |
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| The Hamiltonian | |
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| The Hydrogen Atom | |
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| Solution of the [Phi] Equation | |
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| Solution of the [Theta] Equation | |
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| Solution of the R Equation | |
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| Quantum Numbers and Energy Levels | |
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| Wave Functions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Thermal Motion | |
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| Ideal Gases | |
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| Liquids | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| Bernoulli Trials and the Binomial Distribution | |
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| The Poisson Approximation | |
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| The Normal, or Gaussian, Distribution | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Differential Equations | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |