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Part 1 The Facts of Life
ch 1 Why: Biology by the Numbers
ch 2 What and Where: Construction Plans for Cells and Organisms
ch 3 When: Stopwatches at Many Scales
ch 4 Who: “Bless the Little Beasties”

Part 2 Life At Best
Ch 5 Mechanical and Chemical Equilibrium in the Living Cell
Ch 6 Entropy Rules!
Ch 7 Two-State Systems: From Ion Channels to Cooperative Binding
Ch 8 Random Walks and the Structure of Macromolecules
Ch 9 Electrostatics for Salty Solutions
Ch10 Beam Theory: Architecture for Cells and Skeletons
Ch11 Biological Membranes: Life in Two Dimensions

Part 3 Life in Motion
Ch12 The Mathematics of Water
Ch13 A Statistical View of Biological Dynamics
Ch14 Life in Crowded and Disordered Environments
Ch15 Rate Equations and Dynamics in the Cell
Ch16 Dynamics of Molecular Motors
Ch17 Biological Electricity and the Hodgkin-Huxley Model

Part 4 The Meaning of Life
Ch18 Sequences, Specificity, and Evolution
Ch19 Network Organization in Space and Time
Ch20 Whither Physical Biology