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1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations |
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For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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| Contents |
At a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with Biophysics; Chapter 1: Welcoming You to the World of Biophysics; Getting the Lowdown on What Biophysics Really Is; Grasping the Mechanics of Biomechanics; Eyeing the Physics of Fluids; Comprehending Waves and Sound; Forcing Biophysics onto the World; Chapter 2: Interrogating Biophysics: The Five Ws and One H; Figuring Out What Biophysics Is; Locating Biophysics: The Where. |
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Understanding Why Biophysics Is ImportantDetermining When Biophysics Is Relevant; Finding Out Who Are Biophysicists; Answering the Hows of Biophysics; Chapter 3: Speaking Physics: The Basics for All Areas of Biophysics; Stretching Out in All Physical Dimensions with Units; Grasping Scalars, Vectors, and Their Properties; Defining Physical Quantities; Part II: Calling the Mechanics to Fix Your Bio -- Biomechanics; Chapter 4: Bullying Biomechanics with the Laws of Physics; Recognizing That the Force Is Always with You: Newton's Laws; Meeting Conservative Forces -- No Tea Party Folks Here. |
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Recognizing the Nonconservative Forces: No Bleeding Hearts HereThinking Green -- Conservation Is Good; So Is Energy, Work, and Power; Chapter 5: Sitting with Couch Potatoes -Static Equilibrium; Understanding Static Translational Equilibrium; Turning to Static Rotational Equilibrium; Breaking Rigid Bodies with Static Equilibrium; Chapter 6: Building the Mechanics of the Human Body and Animals; Getting Down with Gravity; Feeling the Effects of Acceleration; Rising of the Machines -- The Bio-Terminator; Responding to Biological System's Forces; Defining Scaling: No Scales Required. |
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Chapter 7: Making The World Go Round with Physics -- DynamicsReducing Motion to a Straight Line; Discovering Forces and Torques Involved with Circular Motion; Chapter 8: Looking at Where Moving Objects Go -- Kinematics; Grasping One-Dimensional Motion; Spinning In Circles; Moving With Noncircular Two-Dimensional Motion; Part III: Making Your Blood Boil -- The Physics of Fluids; Chapter 9: Understanding the Mechanics of Fluids and Cohesive Forces; Pushing On Fluids -- Pressure and Density; Examining Why Things Float; Solving Conservation Laws; Sticking Together -- Cohesive Forces. |
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Chapter 10: Going with the Fluid Flow -- Fluid DynamicsIgnoring Friction Nonviscous Fluids; Fighting the Drag -- Viscous Flow; Chapter 11: Breaking through to the Other Side -- Transport, Membranes, and Porous Material; Examining the Ins and Outs of Diffusion; Understanding Human Metabolism; Eliminating Product from the Body; Important formulas to remember in this part; Part IV: Playing the Music Too Loud -- Sound and Waves; Chapter 12: Examining the Physics of Waves and Sound; Comprehending Harmonic Motion; Comprehending Waves and Their Properties; Seeing the Effect of Boundaries on the Wave. |
| Summary |
The fun, easy way to get up to speed on biophysics concepts, principles, and practices One of the most diverse of modern scientific disciplines, biophysics applies methods and technologies from physics to the study of biological systems and phenomena, from the human nervous system to soil erosion to global warming. What are the best options for satisfying the world's growing energy demands? How can we feed the world's growing population? How can we contain, or reverse, global warming? How can we vouchsafe a plentiful supply of potable water for future generations? These are among the. |
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Biophysics.
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Biophysics |
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Biophysique. |
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Biophysics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Vos, K. (Ken). Biophysics for dummies. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2013 9781118513507 (OCoLC)839315648 |
| ISBN |
9781118513538 (electronic bk.) |
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1118513533 (electronic bk.) |
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1118513509 |
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9781118513507 |
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9781118513521 (ebk.) |
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1118513525 (ebk.) |
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EB00057852 Recorded Books |
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