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Air and water : the biology and physics of life's media /
"Fish, shrimp, whales, and kelps live in the sea," writes Mark Denny, "and no one would mistake them for something that lives on land. By the same token, redwoods, hummingbirds, giraffes, and dragonflies are easily identified as being terrestrial." Denny's lively and informa...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1993.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. The Fluid Environment
- Ch. 3. Thoughts at the Beginning: Basic Principles
- Ch. 4. Density: Weight, Pressure, and Fluid Dynamics
- Ch. 5. Viscosity: How Fluid is the Fluid?
- Ch. 6. Diffusion: Random Walks in Air and Water
- Ch. 7. Density and Viscosity Together: The Many Guises of Reynolds Number
- Ch. 8. Thermal Properties: Body Temperatures in Air and Water
- Ch. 9. Electrical Resistivity and the Sixth Sense
- Ch. 10. Sound in Air and Water: Listening to the Environment
- Ch. 11. Light in Air and Water
- Ch. 12. Surface Tension: the Energy of the Interface
- Ch. 13. Surface Waves
- Ch. 14. Evaporation: Drying Out and Keeping Cool
- Ch. 15. A Thought at the End.