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10: Diffusion

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  • 10.1: Continuum Diffusion
    A significant fraction of how molecules move spatially in biophysics is described macroscopically by “diffusion” and microscopically through its counterpart “Brownian motion”. Diffusion refers to the phenomenon by which concentration and temperature gradients spontaneously disappear with time, and the properties of the system become spatially uniform. Brownian motion is also a spontaneous process observed in equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems.
  • 10.2: Solving the Diffusion Equation
  • 10.3: Steady-State Solutions


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