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- Expanded and updated new edition of a widely adopted textbook
- Introduces the macrophysics of body physiology, a subject highly relevant to students in physics, biomedical engineering and medicine
- Presents human physiology in a comprehensive way with connections to everyday experience
- Contains numerous illustrations, as well as problems and solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Acoustics of Sound Waves in Speaking and Hearing
- Biophysics of the Skelleton
- Electrical Properties of the Body
- Energetics of Body Metabolism
- Engineering Aspects of Human Physiology
- Fluid Flow in Cardiovascular Systems
- Mechanical Properties of the Body
- Physics for Med Students
- Physics of Sports
- Vision and Optics of the Eye
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, USA
Irving P. Herman
About the author
Irving P. Herman is Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in New York, NY. He received B.S. and Ph.D degrees in physics from MIT, where he was a Fannie and John Hertz Predoctoral Research Fellow. He then joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which he left in 1986 to join Columbia University. His main research areas have evolved from using lasers for separating deuterium and tritium isotopes, to following and inducing thin-film reactions, and, more recently, to analyzing nanomaterials, and also investigates the guided assembly of nanomaterials. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, held the Lady Davis Fellowship Visiting Professorship at Hebrew University, and was the Seidman Family Series Lecturer at the Technion. He was chair of his department for six years and director of the National Science Foundation MRSEC Center for Nanostructured Materials at Columbia for 12 years. He has also authored the monograph Optical Diagnostics for Thin Film Processing and over 150 papers in peer reviewed journals, and has three patents.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of the Human Body
Authors: Irving P. Herman
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23932-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23930-9Published: 19 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79556-0Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23932-3Published: 09 January 2016
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIV, 953
Number of Illustrations: 606 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Human Physiology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Sports Medicine, Medical and Radiation Physics