This comprehensive and extensively classroom-tested biophysics textbook is a complete introduction to the physical principles underlying biological processes and their applications to the life sciences and medicine. The foundations of natural processes are placed on a firm footing before showing how their consequences can be explored in a wide range of biosystems. The goal is to develop the readers' intuition, understanding, and facility for creative analysis that are frequently required to grapple with problems involving complex living organisms. Topics cover all scales, encompassing the application of statics, fluid dynamics, acoustics, electromagnetism, light, radiation physics, thermodynamics, statistical physics, quantum biophysics, and theories of information, ordering, and evolutionary optimization to biological processes and bio-relevant technological implementations. Sound modeling principles are emphasized throughout, placingall the concepts within a rigorous framework. With numerous worked examples and exercises to test and enhance the reader's understanding, this book can be used as a textbook for physics graduate students and as a supplementary text for a range of premedical, biomedical, and biophysics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It will also be a useful reference for biologists, physicists, medical researchers, and medical device engineers who want to work from first principles.

Chapter1: Introduction: The Nature of Biophysics

Chapter2: The Kinds of Ordinary Materials
Chapter3: Mechanical Aspects of Biosystems
Chapter4: Fluid Mechanics Applied to Biosystems
Chapter5: Acoustics in Biology and Medicine
Chapter6: Electric and Magnetic Fields in Life
Chapter7: Light in Biology and Medicine
Chapter8: Ionizing Radiation and Life
Chapter9: Bioenergetics
Chapter10: The Statistical Basis of Bioenergetics
Chapter11: Biomolecular Structure and Interactions
Chapter12: Entropy and Information in Biology
Chapter13: Modeling Biological Systems
Chapter14: Neural Networks and Brains
Chapter15: Ordering Theory
Chapter16: Energy Flow in the Production of Order
Chapter17: Life in the Universe
Chapter18: Future Developments.