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Contents
Preface...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ix
About the Author............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ xiii
Chapter 1 Introduction: Toolbox at the Physical–Life Science Interface.................................................................................................. 1
Chapter 2 Orientation for the Bio-Curious: The Basics of Biology for the
Physical Scientist............................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Chapter 3 Making Light Work in Biology: Basic, Foundational Detection and
Imaging Techniques Involving Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infrared
Electromagnetic Radiation Interactions with Biological Matter......................................................................................... 59
Chapter 4 Making Light Work Harder in Biology: Advanced, Frontier UV–VIS–IR Spectroscopy
and Microscopy for Detection and Imaging................................................................................................................................. 111
Chapter 5 Detection and Imaging Tools that Use Nonoptical Waves: Radio and Microwaves, Gamma
and X-Rays, and Various High-Energy Particle Techniques�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 161
Chapter 6 Forces: Methods that Measure and/or Manipulate Biological Forces or Use Forces in
Their Principal Mode of Operation on Biological Matter....................................................................................................... 203
Chapter 7 Complementary Experimental Tools: Valuable Experimental Methods that Complement
Mainstream Research Biophysics Techniques.............................................................................................................................. 265
Chapter 8 Theoretical Biophysics: Computational Biophysical Tools and Methods that Require a
Pencil and Paper.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 315
Chapter 9 Emerging Biophysics Techniques: An Outlook of the Future Landscape of Biophysics Tools........................ 395
Index.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 435