Zoological Physics
Quantitative Models of Body Design, Actions, and Physical Limitations of Animals
Authors: Ahlborn, Boye K.
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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.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Life: Information, Matter, and Energy
Pages 1-23
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Energy and Temperature
Pages 25-65
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Form and Forces
Pages 67-126
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Fluids in the Body
Pages 127-158
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Animals in Motion
Pages 159-190
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Zoological Physics
- Book Subtitle
- Quantitative Models of Body Design, Actions, and Physical Limitations of Animals
- Authors
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- Boye K. Ahlborn
- Copyright
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-36188-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/3-540-36188-X
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-20846-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-05877-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 432
- Topics
