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Gold medal physics [[electronic resource] ] : the science of sports / / John Eric Goff
| Gold medal physics [[electronic resource] ] : the science of sports / / John Eric Goff |
| Autore | Goff John Eric <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina | 796.0153 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sports sciences
Force and energy Physics |
| ISBN | 0-8018-9793-9 |
| Classificazione | 33.93 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Pre-Game Show""; ""2 It�s Not Over Until the Trombone Player Goes Down: Vectors and How to Think Like a Physicist""; ""3 All Hail Flutie: Gravity and Projectiles""; ""4 Vive le Lance: Simplifying the Complicated""; ""5 A Leap into the Unknown: More Projectiles and Angular Momentum""; ""6 Amazing Spins in and around All Kinds of Water: Rotations in Water Sports""; ""7 Soccer Kicks Gone Bananas: Off-Center Kicking and the Magnus Force""; ""8 Four Olympics and Four Straight Gold Medals: Centripetal Motion and Lift""
""9 It Takes More Than a Big Gut: Caloric Consumption and Linear Momentum""""10 The Post-Game Show""; ""Further Reading""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W"" |
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The incredible shrinking bee [[electronic resource] ] : insects as models for microelectromechanical devices / / James V. Lawry
| The incredible shrinking bee [[electronic resource] ] : insects as models for microelectromechanical devices / / James V. Lawry |
| Autore | Lawry James V |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Imperial College Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 573.1/15799 |
| Soggetto topico |
Bees - Physiology
Size judgment |
| ISBN |
1-281-86717-9
9786611867171 1-86094-806-5 |
| Classificazione |
33.93
53.32 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Glossary; Preface; Chapter One; What's in This Book; Introductory Note; Why Study Bees?; Vector Competency; Role of Circulation in Disease; Insect Circulation Differs From Ours; Millions of Years of Research and Development; Prototypes; Masters of Small; Bee Fluid Dynamics; How Can Bees Be So Small?; The Non-incredible Non-shrinking Woman; Printer Analogy; Organs Float in a Barrel of Blood; Open Pumps Slosh Insect Blood; The Insect Pump: The Dorsal Vessel; Unidirectional Flow in the Dorsal Vessel; Where Does Her Blood Go?; A Marxian Distribution
Blood Paths Stay Short and Mostly Outside TubesLow Blood Pressure Promotes Longevity; Hemocoels Adjust to Changes in Volume; Zoom In; Control Points; A Mobile Service Economy; Hemocoels Shrink But Still Coordinate; Why Model Hemocoels?; Sorting; Diffuse Control; Hemocoel as Microprocessor; Safety Factors; New Models and New Control Systems; Shrinking Increases Efficiency; Our Bottom Line: Hemocoels Adapt to Changes That Would Block Closed Pump Tube Systems; Three D Becomes Two D; Now You Have It; Chapter Two; Bees and Devices; Overview; Why Bees?; Dissect to Learn?; Silk Dreams What We Can DoDNA Computer; Devices, Bees and Philosophy; Emergent Systems; A Monkey Watches The Red Sox; The Monkey's Question?; Emergence; What Do We Mean by Understanding?; Understanding is Relative; Enter Chaos; Shape; Reproduction; Bees and Devices Integrated Within a Common Manifold; Microfluidic Chip; Porous Monolithic Polymers; Scale and Size; Here's the Rub; Scaling; Shape Implies Forces; Condensation and the 'C' Word; It's All in the Edge; Microns or Nanometers?; Insect Units; Micrometers Visualized; Nanometer Analogy; Scale Difficulties; Complexity Magnified Divisive Devices: Our Smallest Parts Still StickCorralling Molecules; Nanotech?; Limits? What Limits?; Chip Realities; Bottom Up or Top Down?; Shrinking Big to Small Doesn't Work; What is MEMS?; NEMS; Generalities; A Generic MEMS System; First Simulate; Then Again and Again; VLSI Devices Obey Simple Laws; Bulk Controls Electrons; Diaphragm Pump Compares Unfavorably With a Bee's Heart; Acceleration Sensor Compares Unfavorably With a Bee's Mechanoreceptors; Example of a Sequenced Array; Miniature Parts; Energy; Foreshadowing: Emergent Levels of Metabolism The Monkey's Problem: Analyze Emergent Functions?Comparisons: Bees; Devices; Manufacture; Chip Manufacture: A Dirty Problem; Manufacture Close on the Bee's Knees; Showcase Bee Manufacturing: Chitin; What is Chitin?; Growth; Contained Energy Supplies?; Webs of Levels; Neural Coordination; Copper, Iron and Ordered Structure; When You Are Small Your Rules Are Different; Bees as MEMS: A Summary; Chapter Three; Beauty Before the Beast; A. GRAPHS; Graphs Before Models; Graphs in General; Order and Size; The World Wide Web: A Graph; Properties of Graphs; Restricted Representations; What Graphs Show Postman Problem |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782203003321 |
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Lawry James V
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| London, : Imperial College Press | ||
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