Kinetics for Bioscientist
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776814694
Table of contents: title: Why a Bioscientist should care about kinetics; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: Problem: Elimination of alcohol from the body; title: Problem: Growth of an E.coli culture; title: Problem: Cancer; title: Summary; title: Rates, speeds and velocities; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: Definitions; title: Average and instantaneous rates; title: Working with instantaneous rates; title: Summary; title: Zero Order Reactions; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: Some definitions for zero order reactions; title: Developing the tools for a zero order reaction; title: Problem: Elimination of a drug from the metabolism; title: Problem: Transport of growth hormone receptor to cell membrane; title: Which equation should I use to calculate the product of a reaction?; title: Problem solving strategies; title: Equations for zero order reactions; title: More practice questions; title: First order reaction; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: Some definitions for first order reactions; title: Developing the tools for a first order reaction; title: Problem: Elimination of a drug from the metabolism; title: Problem: Radioactive decay; title: Problem: Degradation of a receptor/ligand dimer; title: Problem: Growth of a population; title: Problem Solving Strategies; title: Equations for a first order reaction; title: More practice questions; title: Second order reaction – a special case; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: Some general definitions of a second order reaction; title: Developing the tools for a second order reaction; title: Problem: Dimerization of the receptor for a growth hormone; title: Problem: Formation of active reverse transcriptase dimers; title: Problem solving strategies; title: Equations for second order reactions in which the reactants are the same chemical; title: More practice questions; title: Second order reaction with different reactants; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: Extension of the second order rate concept; title: Pseudo-orders; title: Problem: Hydrolysis of Acetylcholine; title: Problem solving strategies; title: Determine the order of a reaction; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: The significance of ‘initial rates’; title: Effect of reactant concentrations on rates; title: Equations for the determination of rate orders; title: Problem: Determine the rate order of a reaction; title: Rate orders and Molecularity of a reaction; title: Fractal and negative rate orders; title: Problem Solving Strategy; title: More practice questions; title: Complex reactions with several reactants; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: The general rate law expression for reactions with several reactants; title: Determining individual rate orders from experimental data; title: Determine the rate constant for a reactions with several reactants; title: Problem: Calculate rates and concentrations of reactants from data sets; title: Problem Solving Strategy; title: More practice questions; title: Coupled reactions; title: Introduction and learning outcomes; title: The General Mass Action (GMA) representation for complex reactions; title: The GMA representation for a reversible reaction; title: Problem: Calculate the equilibrium constant of a complex reversible reaction; title: Problem: Calculating equilibrium concentrations from rate constants; title: Problem solving strategies; title: More problem questions; title: Model Answers to practice questions; title: Answers to Chapter 3; title: Answers to Chapter 4; title: Answers to Chapter 5; title: Answers to Chapter 7; title: Answers to Chapter 8; title: Answers to Chapter 9