An introduction to the fundamental physical principles related to the study of biological phenomena, structured around relevant biological examples.

This book aims to demystify fundamental biophysics for students in the health and biosciences required to study physics and to understand the mechanistic behavi

Why do elephants have sturdier thigh bones than humans? Why can't ostriches fly? How do bacteria swim through fluids? With each chapter structured around releva

Each chapter has three types of learning aides for students: open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions, and quantitative problems. There is an average of

Increasing numbers of physicists, chemists, and mathematicians are moving into biology, reading literature across disciplines, and mastering novel biochemical c