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Zoological Physics
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Zoological Physics presents a physicist's view of life. The primary life functions of animals, such as eating, growing, reproducing and getting around all depend on motion: Motion of food into the organism, motion of materials through the body, motion of limbs and motion of the entire body through water, air, and on land.
These activities are controlled by internal information stored in the genes or generated in the brain and by external information gathered by the senses: predominantly eyes and ears. This book models these life functions with the tools of physics. It is aimed at students of life science, engineering and physics, but will also appeal to other readers with a general interest in animals.
Unique review of the development and functionality of life Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Inhalt
Life: Information, Matter, and Energy.- Energy and Temperature.- Form and Forces.- Fluids in the Body.- Animals in Motion.- Locomotion.- Waves, the Carriers of Information.- Light, Abundant Information.- Sound.- Body Electronics and Magnetic Senses.- Better Physics: The Trifle of Difference.
Weitere Informationen
- Allgemeine Informationen
- Sprache Englisch
- Anzahl Seiten 452
- Herausgeber Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Gewicht 680g
- Untertitel Quantitative Models of Body Design, Actions, and Physical Limitations of Animals
- Autor Boye K. Ahlborn
- Titel Zoological Physics
- Veröffentlichung 13.10.2010
- ISBN 3642058779
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- EAN 9783642058776
- Jahr 2010
- Größe H235mm x B155mm x T25mm
- Lesemotiv Verstehen
- Auflage Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st edition 2004
- GTIN 09783642058776