Physical Models of Living Systems second edition, Errata
"Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
This page is for the second edition.
If you've got the first edition, please go here instead.
This list will grow as errata are found.
I'll be grateful to hear of any errors not already on this list.
Thanks, Philip Nelson
Published edition:
In the Kindle edition, pages 122 and/or 363 look bad on certain devices. They look fine on Kindle for Mac and Kindle for PC. Additionally, you can get them at this link. If you encounter this error, I would like to hear the details (device, version).
Corrections:
- Page 145: Should say "Chapter 9 will interpret 1/(Delta t) as a mean rate of escape..."
- Page 246, box, second bullet: Change "the first one" to "the single-vesicle distribution".
- Page 281, Key Formulas: Equation 10.12 (master equation) is repeated inaccurately here. The last term needs a factor of l. The formula appears correctly in Track 2, page 283. [Thanks to Eslam Abdelaleem.]
- Figure 12.7a: An orange nullcline was omitted. Add an orange line coinciding with the horizontal axis, as seen in (b).
- Page 374 Fig,12.27 caption mentions Fig.12.18d. Actually the reference should be to Fig 12.19.
- Problem 13.1: "draw the corresponding phase portrait in the theta-deltambar plane."
- Problem 13.7d: Delete the word "attracting".
Clarifications and small corrections:
- Problem 13.2: choose Q = 1 kg/s and gamma = 1/(kg s).