Zoological physics : quantitative models of body design, actions, and physical limitations of animals

書誌事項

Zoological physics : quantitative models of body design, actions, and physical limitations of animals

Boye K. Ahlborn

Springer, 2006, c2004

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-420) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book presents a physicists view of life. The primary life functions of animals, such as eating, growing, reproducing and getting around all depend on motion: Motion of materials through the body, motion of limbs and motion of the entire body through water, air and on land. These activities are driven by internal information stored in the genes or in the brain and by external information transmitted by the senses. This book models these life functions with the tools of physics. It will appeal to all scientists, from the undergraduate level upwards, who are interested in the role played by physics in the animal kingdom.

目次

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.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA78694080
  • ISBN
    • 3540208461
  • LCCN
    2006927238
  • 出版国コード
    gw
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Berlin ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xix, 428 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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