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Recombinant DNA, Part E, Volume 154: Volume 154: Recombitant Dna Part E (Methods in Enzymology)
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Recombinant DNA methods are powerful, revolutionary techniques for at least two reasons.
First, they allow the isolation of single genes in large amounts from a pool of thousands or millions of genes. Second, the isolated genes or their regulatory regions can be modified at will and re-introduced into cells for expression at the RNA or protein levels. These attributes help to solve complex biological problems and to produce new and better products in the areas of health, agriculture and industry.
Both volume 154 and 155 include the descriptions of several useful new restriction enzymes and rapid methods for DNA sequence analysis, along with a number of other useful methods.
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Fundamentals of SEMI-MICRO QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS By CARL J. JENGELDER, Ph. D. Professor of Analytical Chemistry University of Pittsburgh New York JOHN WILEY SONS, Inc. London CHAPMAN HALL, Limited PREFACE The normal text book of qualitative analysis follows the some what standard pattern a lengthy section on equilibrium theory, the properties and analytical reactions of the cations and their separation and detection, a similar treatment for the anions, and a closing section on systematic analysis. The instruction in theory must, perforce, be spread over the duration of the course, whereas, in following the conventional order, the laboratory work plunges the student prematurely into all the complexities of cation groups I and II, long before he, on the one hand, has acquired necessary experimental experience and technique and, on the other hand, has gained a sufficient understanding of the underlying theory. To overcome these difficulties, a rearrangement of the course of instruction is presented in this book, based upon the authors successful experience over the past five years. The course of instruction begins with the alkali metals and pro ceeds into a study of the alkaline earth elements, during which time the solubility product principle is introduced. This is fol lowed by the laboratory study of the metals of cation group III, offering thus an appropriate introduction to oxidation theory with iron, manganese, and chromium as examples amphoterism as il lustrated by aluminum, chromium, and zinc and the theory of complex ions as exhibited by nickel, cobalt, and zinc. By the time this phase of instruction is completed, the student is better conditioned both in theory and practice to understand and carry out the more difficult reactions, steps and procedures of groups I and II. Common-ion effect or buffering is incorporated here in the theory. Arsenic forms the transition from cation analysis to anion analysis. Remaining sections of theory are included in the chapters on anion study. For complete systematic analysis, an ion procedures precede cation procedures. The most important features of this book are 1 the introduc tion of the cations, in reverse order, before complete systematic analysis is undertaken and 2 the gradual introduction of selected portions of tlj 3 7 1 i pqrmate intervals to accompany the ex vi PREFACE perimental work. The author believes he has successfully inte grated theory with practice. A schedule of laboratory and class room assignments is suggested in the appendix to aid the teacher in planning his course based on this new arrangement. Incorporated in the sections on theory are numerous illustrative calculations followed by problem sets, ten in all, each set com prising 20 problems, half with and half without answers. This provides ample material for instruction in chemical calculations, thus dispensing with the use of a separate problem book. Portions of this book have been taken from the first and second editions of Semi-Micro Qualitative Analysis by Engelder, Dunkel berger, and Schiller. CARL J. ENGELDER PITTSBURGH, PA. June 1946 CONTENTS PART I THE CATIONS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTION. REACTIONS AND EQUATIONS. APPARATUS AND TECHNIQUE. REAGENTS 1 II. THE THEORY OF SOLUTIONS. THE ANALYTICAL GROUPING OF THE COMMON ELEMENTS. THE ALKALI METALS 22 III. THE LAW OF CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM. THE THEORY OF PRE CIPITATION THE SOLUBILITY-PRODUCT PRINCIPLE. THE ALKALINE EARTH ELEMENTS 55 IV. THE ELEMENTARY THEORY OF OXIDATION AND REDUCTION. THE THEORY OF AMPHOTERISM. THE THEORY OF COMPLEX IONS. THE ELEMENTS OF GROUP III 89 V. IONIZATION EQUILIBRIA AND BUFFER ACTION THE ELEMENTS OF GROUPS I AND II 152 PART II THE ANIONS VI. THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE ANIONS. THE ANIONS OF GROUP I. THE pH VALUE OF SOLUTIONS 227 VII. THE THEORY OF NEUTRALIZATION AND HYDROLYSIS. THE AN IONS OF GROUPS II AND III 260 VIII. THE ANIONS OF GROUPS IV AND V. THE ELECTROCHEMICAL THEORY OF OXIDATION 284 PART III SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS IX...
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'This is an excellent book from which to learn the methods and results of statistical mechanics.' Nature 'A well written graduate-level text for scientists and engineers... Highly recommended for graduate-level libraries.' Choice
This highly successful text, which first appeared in the year 1972 and has continued to be popular ever since, has now been brought up-to-date by incorporating the remarkable developments in the field of 'phase transitions and critical phenomena' that took place over the intervening years. This has been done by adding three new chapters (comprising over 150 pages and containing over 60 homework problems) which should enhance the usefulness of the book for both students and instructors. We trust that this classic text, which has been widely acclaimed for its clean derivations and clear explanations, will continue to provide further generations of students a sound training in the methods of statistical physics.
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Excellent Stat Mech Resource.......2007-07-31
I found this book to be incredibly lucid, especially in the sections about quantum statistics. Pathria actually taught my class and did acknowledge some of the archaic solutions one of the other reviewers mentioned. Despite this, however, I still felt the material was well organized and well presented. Excellent bedtime reading material!
The best graduate text on statistical mechanics you'll find.......2007-06-20
There are a number of lukewarm reviews of this textbook on this site, and few positive ones. I feel it deserves to be thrown into a better light, and will attempt to respond to some of these negative reviews.
First, I disagree wholeheartedly with the reviewer Fayngold. I find that this text is much more accessible than, for example, Huang. You do not need to be an expert in stat mech before picking up this book; rather, I found that it quite clearly elucidated the subject of stat mech in a pedagogical manner, and many of the derivations (for example, deriving the conditions for Bose-Einstein condensation) to be much shorter and simpler than those in other texts. Stat mech is by nature a very mathematical subject, and this is unavoidable (though Pathria did delegate much of the mathematical stuff -- like Guassian integrals, Gamma functions, etc -- to a few concise appendices). Perhaps the reviewer did not realize that this is a graduate level, rather than undergraduate, text book. I also disagree with the reviewer that this book is comprehensive (more on that below).
In response to many of the other reviewers, I think it's worth repeating: this is a graduate level textbook. Graduate texts, in my experience, rarely attempt to provide physical insight. Rather, they are focused on rigorously deriving the laws and equations that you need in order to perform physical calculations. I'm not saying I agree with this methodology, but it does seem to be the case more often than not. If you truly want to find a textbook that is a dense morass of mathematics, try Huang. Pathria is a breath of fresh air by comparison.
Prerequisite knowledge for this text would include at least an undergraduate class in quantum mechanics (familiarity with the operator notation, the operator version of Schrodinger's equation, as well as choice of space and momentum "representations") and an acquaintance with Hamilton's canonical equations (mainly the q and p variables). Without this background, much of the latter chapters might be hard to follow.
If you are looking for a gentler introduction to statistical mechanics, I can't recommend enough "Thermal Physics" by Kittel and Kroemer. This is the de facto standard for a first course in statistical mechanics. The only drawback I see with Kittel and Kroemer is that it is an entirely quantum-based approach to statistical mechanics, and that's not what everyone is looking for. Perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not, the quantum approach does make the mathematics easier to follow (assuming a very passing acquaintance with quantum mechanics), since you deal only with sums rather than the more complicated integrals over phase space that are required for a classical treatment.
The Table of Contents is available above and gives a good overview of the topics covered in this book. It is a complete list of topics, though I found it lacking in a couple of ways. First, there is no mention of the Boltzmann Transport Equation. For this, I recommend borrowing Huang or another text from the library. And second, there is not an in-depth treatment of the Debye theory of phonons, though I have to admit it is as good as any I've seen.
I can't speak to the problems in this text, because I have not attempted them.
Overall, I think this is the best graduate level book in statistical mechanics that I've come across, far superior to Huang or Reichl. Feynman's and Landau's books, though dated, are also worth looking into, because it's hard to beat the master instructors of physics. From my conversations with other graduate students, I think most agree that this is one of the best graduate level stat mech books out there.
good reference but mediocre textbook.......2004-08-29
The book is very comprehensive, discusses all topics in Stat Mech and contains all the formulas you'll need. Unfortunately, it often neglects to mention the physical conditions for which this or that formula was derived. Reading the bood quickly becomes an exercise in mathematics. The problems are very hard and the student looking for a way to approach the problems will find no clue in the book whatsoever. Convenient for professors. Students who want to pass the course should look elsewhere for the discussion of the appropriate solution methods. Reading will be pleasant for those who already have a rock-solid understanding of Stat Mech. All the others will be left in the dust. Buy this book if it's a required text, if you want a good reference, or if you think you can solve any problem on Stat Mech. Read some other book first to understand the physics involved.
Good explanations, but a couple of small problems.......2003-10-22
I'm currently reading this book. So far the material has been well-presented in a logical form. The book comprehensively covers the basics, and discusses a few more modern topics too.
Just a few *small* gripes though. Firstly I find the equation numbering somewhat confusing. Secondly, some of the exercises are a nightmare simply because they are not well stated. Thus, although some exercises add considerably to my understanding - as they should - some take an annoyingly long time to figure out what is meant.
Another bad stat. mech. book.......2003-02-13
I think the only reason professors use this book is because it has hard problems and all the major topics seem to be listed in the chapter headings. Unfortunately, there are major sections of this book where the author derives equation after equation to get to a final result in the most archaic method imaginable. This makes it very hard to read this book. Good luck on trying to pull out the important stuff! There are very few worked out examples, and insight is generally sparse. Certainly not a book for just looking things up, or using in a class either.
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This concise, elementary treatment illustrates the ways in which an atomic-molecular perspective yields new insights into macroscopic thermodynamics. Starting with an analysis of some very simple microcanonical ensembles, it proceeds to the Boltzmann distribution law and a systematic exploration of the proper formulation, evaluation, and application of partition functions. 1974 edition.
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this old book the best elementary introduction to statistical mechanics.......2007-03-05
This is a wonderful introduction to statistical mechanics, especially for chemistry students taking undergraduate physical chemistry. Leonard K. Nash was a Harvard professor of chemistry whose primary interest became chemical education and the history of chemistry. This book was a classic in the 1960's, but later went out of print. Dover has done a real service in reissuing it. The book is remarkable for its lucidity and pedagogical clarity. It's the best introduction I know to the very difficult subject, especially for beginners, of statistical mechanics. For starters, it gives a wonderfully insightful look at the meaning of the statistics of the statistical ensembles.
This book puts most of the current physical chemistry textbooks to shame in its treatment of the subject. It could serve as a stand-alone text for the statistical mechanics part of a physical chemistry sequence.
If you are taking this course, you owe it to yourself to get this book. The price cannot be beat.
I also recommend the companion book by Nash on macroscopic thermodynamics, together with Fermi's classic text (also available from Dover).
At a more elementary level, Dover has re-issued Bruce Mahan's famous thermodynamics book. I believe he used this for advanced freshmen at Berkeley. If you are having trouble with thermodynamics in physical chemistry, even at the Fermi or Nash level, do yourself a favor and get Mahan's book. Even if you're not having trouble, you may very well find it helpful.
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This invaluable book explores the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, differential geometry, field theory and critical phenomena. Several chapters have been updated relative to the classic 1989 edition. Moreover, there are now three entirely new chapters — on effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity, on fixed connectivity membranes and on triangulated surface models of fluctuating membranes.
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Since the publication of
Random Matrices (Academic Press, 1967) so many new results have emerged both in theory and in applications, that this edition is almost completely revised to reflect the developments. For example, the theory of matrices with quaternion elements was developed to compute certain multiple integrals, and the inverse scattering theory was used to derive asymptotic results. The discovery of Selberg's 1944 paper on a multiple integral also gave rise to hundreds of recent publications.
This book presents a coherent and detailed analytical treatment of random matrices, leading in particular to the calculation of n-point correlations, of spacing probabilities, and of a number of statistical quantities. The results are used in describing the statistical properties of nuclear excitations, the energies of chaotic systems, the ultrasonic frequencies of structural materials, the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and in general the characteristic energies of any sufficiently complicated system. Of special interest to physicists and mathematicians, the book is self-contained and the reader need know mathematics only at the undergraduate level.
Key Features
* The three Gaussian ensembles, unitary, orthogonal, and symplectic; their n-point correlations and spacing probabilities
* The three circular ensembles: unitary, orthogonal, and symplectic; their equivalence to the Gaussian
* Matrices with quaternion elements
* Integration over alternate and mixed variables
* Fredholm determinants and inverse scattering theory
* A Brownian motion model of the matrices
* Computation of the mean and of the variance of a number of statistical quantities
* Selberg's integral and its consequences
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The canonical book of random matrices.......2000-04-14
Mehta's book is the book that gets refered to in every article that deals with random matrices. It covers classical theory of random matrices well, but omits many important developments such as chiral random matrices. 'Random matrices' is somewhat pricey but it is nevertheless the best book there is on theory of random matrices. Unfortunately.
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I wish that Maude had Gonne sooner.......2000-01-31
He lost his virginity at the age of 51, and his poetry undoubtedly got a great deal better afterwards. Political claptrap marred his works and spoilt some vaguely pleasant ideas. I am afraid that any man who spends his entire life concerning himself with politics and Celtic twilight missed a great deal of the reality of life. However, I am inclined to attribute a great deal of this to Ms Gonne, who without a shadow of a doubt was the main factor responsible for his horrendous 'Helen of Troy' images. To any student studying this text, I would urge them to remember Dr Derek Pezrekier's pithy comment at a lecture given at Berkley University, California: "Mr Yeats - what did you spend the money on?" to which a student replied "What money?" "The money your mother gave you for brain surgery.".
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