A practical guide to vertebrate mechanics

Christopher McGowan ; illustrations by Julian Mulock

A thorough understanding of the form, function, and design of animals is essential to any working biologist's knowledge. In the author's view, however, this fast-growing field of study can be made much more exciting and accessible with a hands-on, practical approach. This is the view of A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics. This 1999 text can be considered an engineering book for biologists. The emphasis is on vertebrates, and each topic begins with a discussion of the underlying principles, followed immediately by practical experiments and laboratory exercises. It begins with a refresher on scaling and measurement, followed by three chapters on the mechanical properties of materials. This leads the discussion to animal materials, which serves to illustrate principles of structure and load, lubrication, physiology, metabolism, and stamina. Finally, the book puts the systems in motion, discussing terrestrial locomotion, flight, and swimming. A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics will form an important part of undergraduate and beginning graduate courses for zoology, anatomy, biomechanics, and paleontology students.

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A thorough understanding of the form, function, and design of animals is essential to any working biologist's knowledge. In the author's view, however, this fast-growing field of study can be made much more exciting and accessible with a hands-on, practical approach. This is the view of A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics. This 1999 text can be considered an engineering book for biologists. The emphasis is on vertebrates, and each topic begins with a discussion of the underlying principles, followed immediately by practical experiments and laboratory exercises. It begins with a refresher on scaling and measurement, followed by three chapters on the mechanical properties of materials. This leads the discussion to animal materials, which serves to illustrate principles of structure and load, lubrication, physiology, metabolism, and stamina. Finally, the book puts the systems in motion, discussing terrestrial locomotion, flight, and swimming. A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics will form an important part of undergraduate and beginning graduate courses for zoology, anatomy, biomechanics, and paleontology students.

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[目次]

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. A matter of scale
  • 2. Elasticity
  • 3. Measuring the strengths of materials
  • 4. How things break
  • 5. Bone as a composite material
  • 6. Structures and loads
  • 7. Engineering a skeleton
  • 8. Friction, lubrication and joints
  • 9. Muscles: the driving force of skeletons
  • 10. Terrestrial locomotion
  • 11. Fluid flow
  • 12. Flight and flying
  • 13. Swimming and swimmers
  • Appendix: chapter notes and responses to questions
  • References
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. A matter of scale
  • 2. Elasticity
  • 3. Measuring the strengths of materials
  • 4. How things break
  • 5. Bone as a composite material
  • 6. Structures and loads
  • 7. Engineering a skeleton
  • 8. Friction, lubrication and joints
  • 9. Muscles: the driving force of skeletons
  • 10. Terrestrial locomotion
  • 11. Fluid flow
  • 12. Flight and flying
  • 13. Swimming and swimmers
  • Appendix: chapter notes and responses to questions
  • References
  • Index.

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この本の情報

書名 A practical guide to vertebrate mechanics
著作者等 McGowan, Christopher
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1999
ページ数 xiii, 301 p.
大きさ 26 cm
ISBN 0521576733
0521571944
NCID BA43583232
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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