Life's Devices : : The Physical World of Animals and Plants /

Life's Devices : : The Physical World of Animals and Plants / / Steven Vogel, Steven Vogel.

This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Vogel, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1989
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Constraints and opportunities
  • 2. A variety of variables
  • 3. Size and Shape
  • 4. Dimensions, gradients, and summations
  • 5. Gases and liquids
  • 6. Viscosity and flow
  • 7. Pressure and flow
  • 8. Diffusion versus convection
  • 9. A matter of materials
  • 10. A matter of materials
  • 11. Insinuations about curves
  • 12. Systems of support
  • 13. The mechanics of motility
  • 14. Staying put and getting away
  • 15. Energy and afterthoughts
  • Appendix 1. Notes on numbers
  • Appendix 2. Problems and demonstrations
  • List of symbols
  • References and index of citations
  • Subject Index

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