Foreword
Introduction
1.Entropy
1.1StatisticalEnsembles
1.2MicrocanonicalEnsembleandEntropy
1.3Thermodynamics
1.4PrincipleofMaximumEntropy
1.5Example:DefectsinSolid
2.Maxwell-BoltzmannDistribution
2,1ClassicalGasofAtoms
2.2TheMostProbableDistribution
2.3TheDistributionFunction
2.4ThermodynamicProperties
3.FreeEnergy
3.1CanonicalEnsemble
3.2EnergyFluctuations
3.3TheFreeEnergy
3.4Maxwell'sRelations
3.5Example:UnwindingofDNA
4.ChemicalPotential
4.1ChangingtheParticleNumber
4.2GrandCanonicalEnsemble
4.3Thermodynamics
4.4CriticalFluctuations
4.5Example:IdealGas
5.PhaseTransitions
5.1First-OrderPhaseTransitions
5.2Second-OrderPhaseTransitions
5.3VanderWaalsEquationofState
5.4MaxwellConstruction
6.KineticsofPhaseTransitions
6.1NucleationandSpinodalDecomposition
6.2TheFreezingofWater
7.TheOrderParameter
71Ginsburg-LandauTheory
7.2Second-OrderPhaseTransition
7.3First-OrderPhaseTransition
7.4Cahn-HilliardEquation
8.CorrelationFunction
8.1CorrelationLength
8.2Large-DistanceCorrelations
8.3UniversalityClasses
8.4CompactnessIndex
8.5ScalingProperties
9.StochasticProcesses
9.1BrownianMotion
9.2RandomWalk
9.3Diffusion
9.4CentralLimitTheorem
9.5DiffusionEquation
10.LangevinEquation
10.1TheEquation
10.2Solution
10.3Fluctuation-DissipationTheorem
10.4PowerSpectrumandCorrelation
10.5Causality
10.6EnergyBalance
11.TheLifeProcess
11.1Life
11.2CellStructure
11.3MolecularInteractions
11.4PrimaryProteinStructure
11.5SecondaryProteinStructure
11.6TertiaryProteinStructure
11.7DenaturedStateofProtein
12.Self-Assembly
12.1HydrophobicEffect
12.2MicellesandBilayers
12.3CellMembrane
12.4KineticsofSelf-Assembly
12.5KineticArrest
13.KineticsofProteinFolding
13.1TheStatisticalView
13.2DenaturedState
13.3MoltenGlobule
13.4FoldingFunnel
13.5ConvergentEvolution
14.PowerLawsinProteinFolding
14.1TheUniversalRange
14.2CollapseandAnnealing
14.3Self-AvoidingWalk(SAW)
15.Self-AvoidingWalkandTurbulence
15.1Kolmogorov'sLaw
15.2VortexModel
15.3QuantumTurbulence
15.4ConvergentEvolutioninTurbulence
16.ConvergentEvolutioninProteinFolding
16.1MechanismofConvergentEvolution
16.2EnergyCascadeinTurbulence
16.3EnergyCascadeinthePolymerChain
16.4EnergyCascadeintheMoltenGlobule
16.5SecondaryandTertiaryStructures
A.ModelofEnergyCascadeinaProteinMolecule
A.1BrownianMotionofaForced
HarmonicOscillator
A.2CoupledOscillators
A.2.1EquationsofMotion
A.2.2EnergyBalance
A.2.3Fluctuation-DissipationTheorem
A.2.4PerturbationTheory
A.2.5Weak-DampingApproximation
A.3ModelofProteinDynamics
A.4Fluctuation-DissipationTheorem
A.5TheCascadeTime
A.6NumericalExample
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