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Biophysics for dummies / / by Ken Vos
Biophysics for dummies / / by Ken Vos
Autore Vos K (Ken)
Edizione [1st edition]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (435 p.)
Disciplina 571.4
Collana --For dummies
Soggetto topico Biophysics
Molecular structure
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-118-51353-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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
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
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
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
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
Chapter 13: Grasping How Animals and Instruments Produce Sound Waves
Record Nr. UNINA-9910463040903321
Vos K (Ken)  
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Biophysics for dummies / / by Ken Vos
Biophysics for dummies / / by Ken Vos
Autore Vos K (Ken)
Edizione [1st edition]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (435 p.)
Disciplina 571.4
Collana --For dummies
Soggetto topico Biophysics
Molecular structure
ISBN 1-118-51353-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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
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
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
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
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
Chapter 13: Grasping How Animals and Instruments Produce Sound Waves
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787661203321
Vos K (Ken)  
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Biophysics for dummies / / by Ken Vos
Biophysics for dummies / / by Ken Vos
Autore Vos K (Ken)
Edizione [1st edition]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (435 p.)
Disciplina 571.4
Collana For dummies
--For dummies
Soggetto topico Biophysics
Molecular structure
ISBN 1-118-51353-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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
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
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
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
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
Chapter 13: Grasping How Animals and Instruments Produce Sound Waves
Record Nr. UNINA-9910811256003321
Vos K (Ken)  
Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley, , 2013
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui