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Experimental Hydrodynamics of Fast-Floating Aquatic Animals presents the latest research on the physiological, morphological, and evolutionary factors in aquatic animal locomoation--
Aquatic animals --- Animal locomotion. --- Physiology. --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion
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How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.
Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- Animal locomotion --- Animal locomotion. --- Locomotion animale --- Locomotion animale. --- Locomotion. --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion
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Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- Zoomorphology. Zooanatomy --- Animal locomotion. --- Body size. --- Animal locomotion --- Body size --- Animal size --- Animals --- Size of body --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Size --- Morphology (Animals) --- Somatotypes --- Anthropometry --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion
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Muscle : the motor for animal movement, walking and running, jumping, climbing, and crawling, gliding and soaring, flapping flight, floating, swimming, small-scale locomotion
Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- Locomotion --- Animal locomotion. --- Locomotion animale --- Animals --- Animal locomotion --- Physiology. --- Surgery --- Orthopedics, traumatology --- Orthopedics, traumatology. --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion.
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Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- Animal locomotion --- 591.17 --- Movement. Locomotion. Physiology of the skeleton and organs of locomotion --- Animal locomotion. --- 591.17 Movement. Locomotion. Physiology of the skeleton and organs of locomotion --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion
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Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- Invertebrates --- Locomotion --- Locomotion. --- 592 --- 591.17 --- Locomotions --- physiology. --- Invertebrata --- Movement. Locomotion. Physiology of the skeleton and organs of locomotion --- Animal locomotion. --- Invertebrates. --- INVERTEBRATES --- physiology --- Locomotor Activity --- Activities, Locomotor --- Activity, Locomotor --- Locomotor Activities --- 591.17 Movement. Locomotion. Physiology of the skeleton and organs of locomotion --- 592 Invertebrata --- Physiology. --- Animal locomotion --- Animals --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics
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This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with different magnitudes, weights and shapes move at a greater or a smaller velocity in certain proportion in the fluid environment. Originally published in Italian in 1667, then translated into Latin in 1686, the text of this volume has now been translated into English, making the text accessible to a wide readership. This volume is the second of two volumes that contain the Introduction and physical-mathematical illustrations necessary to understand Giovanni Alfonso Borelli’s work On the Movement of Animals, the founding text of seventeenth century biomechanics. The first volume, entitled On the Force of Percussion, demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects.
Science, general. --- History of Science. --- History of Medicine. --- Science --- Medicine. --- Sciences --- Médecine --- History. --- Histoire --- Science (General). --- Science_xHistory. --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Animal locomotion. --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Medicine --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—History.
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Zoology --- Animal locomotion --- Zoologie --- Locomotion animale --- Pre-Linnean works --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages prélinnéens --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Ouvrages prélinnéens --- Pre-Linnaean works of zoology --- Pre-Linnean works of zoology --- Zoology - Pre-Linnean works --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion
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original volumes 1&2: males (nude) 3&4 females (nude)
Human locomotion --- Animal locomotion --- Locomotion humaine --- Locomotion animale --- Pictorial works --- Ouvrages illustrés --- fotografie --- negentiende eeuw --- Muybridge Eadweard --- beweging --- naakt --- Verenigde Staten --- chronofotografie --- chronografie --- 77.071 --- anatomie --- Human anatomy --- photography [process] --- Photography --- anatomy --- Muybridge, Eadweard --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Human mechanics --- Kinesiology --- Locomotion --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Pictorial works.
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Muscle contraction --- Reflexes --- Animal locomotion --- Mathematical models --- Muscles --- Reflex --- Movement. --- Locomotion. --- Mathematical models. --- Physiology. --- Biomathematics. Biometry. Biostatistics --- Animal psychology and neurophysiology --- Animal physiology. Animal biophysics --- physiology. --- 612.76 --- Reflex action --- Neurophysiology --- Neural circuitry --- Contraction of muscles --- Contractility (Biology) --- Animal running --- Animal walking --- Running, Animal --- Walking, Animal --- Animal mechanics --- Locomotion --- Locomotie. Beweging. Lichaamsmechanica. Biomedische ingenieurstechnieken --- Contraction --- Motility --- Movement --- physiology
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