Spark from the deep : how shocking experiments with strongly electric fish powered scientific discovery /
How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity. This book tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predator...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Animals, history, culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Strongly electric fish
- Modeling animal electricity
- Electrophysiology
- The spark of life
- Evolutionary theories
- Electric currents
- Discovering electric worlds
- Conclusion : Nothing but a movement of electrons.