Designed for biology‎,‎ physics‎,‎ and medical students‎,‎ Introductory Biophysics‎:‎ Perspectives on the Living State‎,‎ provides a comprehensive overview of the complex subject of biological physics‎.‎ The companion CD‎-ROM ‎(‎eBook version does not include the CD‎-ROM‎)‎‎,‎ with MATLAB examples and the student version of QuickFieldTM‎,‎ allows the student to perform biophysical simulations and modify the textbook example files‎.‎ Included in the text are computer simulations of thermodynamics‎,‎ astrobiology‎,‎ the response of living cells to external fields‎,‎ chaos in population dynamics‎,‎ numerical models of evolution‎,‎ electrical circuit models of cell suspension‎,‎ gap junctions‎,‎ and neuronal action potentials‎.‎ With this text students will be able to perform biophysical simulations within hours‎.‎MATLAB examples include‎;‎ the Hodgkin Huxley equations‎;‎ the FitzHugh‎-Nagumo model of action potentials‎;‎ fractal structures in biology‎;‎ chaos in population dynamics‎;‎ the cellular automaton model ‎(‎the game of life‎)‎‎;‎ pattern formation in reaction‎-diffusion sy‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎