Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Getting Started with Biophysics -- Chapter 1: Welcoming You to the World of Biophysics -- Getting the Lowdown on What Biophysics Really Is -- Grasping the Mechanics of Biomechanics -- Eyeing the Physics of Fluids -- Comprehending Waves and Sound -- Forcing Biophysics onto the World -- Chapter 2: Interrogating Biophysics: The Five Ws and One H -- Figuring Out What Biophysics Is -- Locating Biophysics: The Where -- Understanding Why Biophysics Is Important -- Determining When Biophysics Is Relevant -- Finding Out Who Are Biophysicists -- Answering the Hows of Biophysics -- Chapter 3: Speaking Physics: The Basics for All Areas of Biophysics -- Stretching Out in All Physical Dimensions with Units -- Grasping Scalars, Vectors, and Their Properties -- Defining Physical Quantities -- Part II: Calling the Mechanics to Fix Your Bio - Biomechanics -- Chapter 4: Bullying Biomechanics with the Laws of Physics -- Recognizing That the Force Is Always with You: Newton's Laws -- Meeting Conservative Forces - No Tea Party Folks Here -- Recognizing the Nonconservative Forces: No Bleeding Hearts Here -- Thinking Green - Conservation Is Good -- So Is Energy, Work, and Power -- Chapter 5: Sitting with Couch Potatoes -Static Equilibrium -- Understanding Static Translational Equilibrium -- Turning to Static Rotational Equilibrium -- Breaking Rigid Bodies with Static Equilibrium -- Chapter 6: Building the Mechanics of the Human Body and Animals -- Getting Down with Gravity -- Feeling the Effects of Acceleration -- Rising of the Machines - The Bio-Terminator -- Responding to Biological System's Forces -- Defining Scaling: No Scales Required.

Chapter 7: Making The World Go Round with Physics - Dynamics -- Reducing Motion to a Straight Line -- Discovering Forces and Torques Involved with Circular Motion -- Chapter 8: Looking at Where Moving Objects Go - Kinematics -- Grasping One-Dimensional Motion -- Spinning In Circles -- Moving With Noncircular Two-Dimensional Motion -- Part III: Making Your Blood Boil - The Physics of Fluids -- Chapter 9: Understanding the Mechanics of Fluids and Cohesive Forces -- Pushing On Fluids - Pressure and Density -- Examining Why Things Float -- Solving Conservation Laws -- Sticking Together - Cohesive Forces -- Chapter 10: Going with the Fluid Flow - Fluid Dynamics -- Ignoring Friction Nonviscous Fluids -- Fighting the Drag - Viscous Flow -- Chapter 11: Breaking through to the Other Side - Transport, Membranes, and Porous Material -- Examining the Ins and Outs of Diffusion -- Understanding Human Metabolism -- Eliminating Product from the Body -- Important formulas to remember in this part -- Part IV: Playing the Music Too Loud - Sound and Waves -- Chapter 12: Examining the Physics of Waves and Sound -- Comprehending Harmonic Motion -- Comprehending Waves and Their Properties -- Seeing the Effect of Boundaries on the Wave -- Chapter 13: Grasping How Animals and Instruments Produce Sound Waves -- Knowing the Nature of Sound and the Speed of Sound -- Resonating with Vibrations and Resonance -- Combining Cords: The Human Voice and Musical Instruments -- Chapter 14: Detecting Sound Waves with the Ear -- Understanding Hearing and the Ear -- Realizing How Sensitive the Human Ear Is - the Power of Sound Waves -- Grasping How Amazing Hearing Is -- Chapter 15: Listening to Sound - Doppler Effect, Echolocation, and Imaging -- Forecasting with the Doppler Effect -- Finding Your Way in the Dark - Echolocation -- Understanding the Limited Range of Echolocation.

Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound Imaging -- Part V: Interacting Subatomic Particles' Influence on Biological Organisms -- Chapter 16: Charging Matter: The Laws of Physics for Electricity, Magnetism, and Electromagnetism -- Forcing Matter in Biological Systems to Interact -- Connecting Electric Circuits -- Chapter 17: Tapping into the Physics of Radiation -- Understanding What Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity Are -- Debunking Misconceptions about Electromagnetic Radiation -- Seeing How Radioactivity Interacts with Biological Systems -- Chapter 18: Fighting the Big C - But Not All Radiation Is Bad -- Investigating Radiation within Biological Systems -- Exposing the Body to Radiation -- Chapter 19: Seeing Good Biophysics in the Medical Field -- Identifying Radiation at Work in Medicine -- Focusing Your X-Ray Vision -- Computer Tomography (CT) Scans -- Posing For Pictures -- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 20: Ten (or So) Tips to Help You Master Your Biophysics Course -- Drawing Diagrams and Figures -- Obeying the Rules -- Creating Your Own Dictionary -- Understanding the Concepts -- Not Fearing the Mathematics -- Applying the Knowledge in Your Field -- Networking with Your Classmates -- Surfing the Internet -- Chatting with Biophysicists -- Chapter 21: Ten Careers for People Studying Biophysics -- Experimental Biophysicist in Academia -- Theoretical Biophysicist in Academia -- Biophysicists outside Academia -- Nuclear Power Reactor Health Physicist -- Governmental Health Physicist -- Environmental Health Physicist -- Medical Health Physicist -- Radiation Therapy Medical Physicist -- Diagnostic Imaging Medical Physicist -- Nuclear Medicine Medical Physicist -- Index -- About the Author.