Air and water : the biology and physics of life's media / Mark W. Denny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denny, Mark W., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air.

Water.

Fluid dynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691213880

0691213887

OCLC:

1175629893