Van der Waals Forces
A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists

This book explains how to calculate van der Waals forces under any circumstances and conditions.

V. Adrian Parsegian (Author)

9780521547789, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 November 2005

398 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.83 kg

'Van der Waals Forces is an outstanding volume and the authoritative work on the topic.' The Quarterly Review of Biology

This book should prove to be the definitive work explaining van der Waals forces, how to calculate them and take account of their impact under any circumstances and conditions. These weak intermolecular forces are of truly pervasive impact, and biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers will profit greatly from the thorough grounding in these fundamental forces that this book offers. Parsegian has organized his book at three successive levels of mathematical sophistication, to satisfy the needs and interests of readers at all levels of preparation. The Prelude and Level 1 are intended to give everyone an overview in words and pictures of the modern theory of van der Waals forces. Level 2 gives the formulae and a wide range of algorithms to let readers compute the van der Waals forces under virtually any physical or physiological conditions. Level 3 offers a rigorous basic formulation of the theory.

Foreword
Prelude
1. Introduction
2. Practice
3. Foundations.

Subject Areas: Biochemical engineering [TC], Biology, life sciences [PS], Chemistry [PN], Physics [PH]