Christopher Mcgowan

A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1999, takes a hands-on approach to the functional morphology of vertebrates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521571944
• ISBN-10: 0521571944
• Artikelnr.: 22420001

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. A matter of scale
2. Elasticity
3. Measuring the strengths of materials
4. How things break
5. Bone as a composite material
6. Structures and loads
7. Engineering a skeleton
8. Friction, lubrication and joints
9. Muscles: the driving force of skeletons
10. Terrestrial locomotion
11. Fluid flow
12. Flight and flying
13. Swimming and swimmers
Appendix: chapter notes and responses to questions
References
Index.