Series Preface xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Note to Instructors xxv
Author xxvii
Chapter 1 Probabilities and Statistics in Chemical
and Biothermodynamics 1
Chapter 2 Mathematical Tools in Thermodynamics 29
Chapter 3 The Framework of Thermodynamics
and the First Law 87
Chapter 4 The Second Law and Entropy 131
Chapter 5 Free Energy as a Potential for the
Laboratory and for Biology 173
Chapter 6 Using Chemical Potentials to Describe
Phase Transitions 209
Chapter 7 The Concentration Dependence of Chemical
Potential, Mixing, and Reactions 233
Chapter 8 Conformational Equilibrium 273
Chapter 9 Statistical Thermodynamics and the
Ensemble Method 303
Chapter 10 Ensembles That Interact with Their
Surroundings 327
Chapter 11 Partition Functions for Single Molecules and
Chemical Reactions 359
Chapter 12 The Helix–Coil Transition 373
Chapter 13 Ligand Binding Equilibria from a Macroscopic
Perspective 403
Chapter 14 Ligand Binding Equilibria from a Microscopic
Perspective 441
Appendix: How to Use Mathematica 485
Bibliography 507
Index 511