The messageof this book is that biophysics is the science of physical principles
underlaying the "phenomenon life" on all levels of organization. Rather than
teaching "physics for biologists" or "physical methods applied to biology", it
regards it's subject as a defined discipline with its own network of ideas and
approaches. The book statrs by explaining molecular and supramolecular
structures of biological systems, various kinds of atomic, molecular and ionic
inter actions movements, energy transfer, slef organization of supramolecular
structures and dynamic properties of biological membranes. It then goes onto
introduce the biological organism as a non-equilibrium system, before treating
thermodynamic concepts of osmotic and electrolyte equilibria , currents