Research Catalog

Title

Zoological physics : quantitative models of body design, actions, and physical limitations of animals / Boye K. Ahlborn.

Author

Ahlborn, Boye K.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c2004.

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Description

xix, 430 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Animal Population Groups > physiology
• Biomedical engineering
• Models, Biological
• Movement
• Physics
• Zoology
• Zoology > Mathematical models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-422) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

3540208461 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004040689

OCLC

54029510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library