Air and Water
eBook - PDF

Air and Water

The Biology and Physics of Life's Media

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Air and Water

The Biology and Physics of Life's Media

About this book

Addressing general readers and biologists, Mark Denny shows how the physics of fluids (in this case, air and water) influences the often fantastic ways in which life forms adapt themselves to their terrestrial or aquatic "media."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Symbols and Subscripts
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Chapter 1. Introduction
  11. Chapter 2. The Fluid Environment
  12. Chapter 3. Thoughts at the Beginning: Basic Principles
  13. Chapter 4. Density: Weight, Pressure, and Fluid Dynamics
  14. Chapter 5. Viscosity: How Fluid is the Fluid?
  15. Chapter 6. Diffusion: Random Walks in Air and Water
  16. Chapter 7. Density and Viscosity Together: The Many Guises of Reynolds Number
  17. Chapter 8. Thermal Properties: Body Temperatures in Air and Water
  18. Chapter 9. Electrical Resistivity and the Sixth Sense
  19. Chapter 10. Sound in Air and Water: Listening to the Environment
  20. Chapter 11. Light in Air and Water
  21. Chapter 12. Surface Tension: the Energy of the Interface
  22. Chapter 13. Surface Waves
  23. Chapter 14. Evaporation: Drying Out and Keeping Cool
  24. Chapter 15. A Thought at the End
  25. Literature Cited
  26. Author Index
  27. Subject Index