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Air and Water

The Biology and Physics of Life's Media

Mark Denny

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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein

Beschreibung

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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Schlagwörter

Wavelength, Molecule, Mean free path, Resonance, Diffusivity, Relative humidity, Refraction, Surface tension, Amplitude, Hull speed, Temperature, Vapor, Sherwood number, Action potential, Flagellum, Flux, Calculation, Kinetic energy, Van der Waals force, Water vapor, Mass diffusivity, Seawater, Thermal conduction, Heat transfer, Salinity, Buoyancy, Acceleration, Lipid, Velocity gradient, Focal length, Pressure gradient, Froude number, Carbon dioxide, Evaporation, Heat capacity, Metabolism, Electric field, Boundary layer, Heat transfer coefficient, Refractive index, Surface energy, Bernoulli's principle, Enthalpy of vaporization, Organism, Insect, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Acoustic impedance, Reynolds number, Convection, Thermoregulation, Viscosity, Grashof number, Neutral buoyancy, Available energy (particle collision), Swim bladder, Molecular diffusion, Attenuation, Fresh water, Effective mass (solid-state physics), Atmospheric pressure, Terminal velocity, Transport coefficient, Hydrostatics, Surface wave, Properties of water, Evaporative cooling (atomic physics), Trachea, Capillary wave, Drag coefficient, Pore