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