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Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion, Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion Or Walking, Swimming and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aëronautics by J. Bell Pettigrew written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. McNeill Alexander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691126348
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Principles of Animal Locomotion written by R. McNeill Alexander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.
Author : David Hu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169861
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls written by David Hu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach us Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes readers on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious. In turn, the latest discoveries about animal mechanics are inspiring scientists to invent robots and devices that move with similar elegance and efficiency. Hu follows scientists as they investigate a multitude of animal movements, from the undulations of sandfish and the way that dogs shake off water in fractions of a second to the seemingly crash-resistant characteristics of insect flight. Not limiting his exploration to individual organisms, Hu describes the ways animals enact swarm intelligence, such as when army ants cooperate and link their bodies to create bridges that span ravines. He also looks at what scientists learn from nature’s unexpected feats—such as snakes that fly, mosquitoes that survive rainstorms, and dead fish that swim upstream. As researchers better understand such issues as energy, flexibility, and water repellency in animal movement, they are applying this knowledge to the development of cutting-edge technology. Integrating biology, engineering, physics, and robotics, How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls demystifies the remarkable mechanics behind animal locomotion.
Author : J. Pettigrew
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368822322
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion or Walking, Swimming, and Flying written by J. Pettigrew and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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ISBN 13 : 9783337636173
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion Or Walking, Swimming, and Flying : written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. BELL. PETTIGREW
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ISBN 13 : 9781033099377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (993 download)
Download or read book ANIMAL LOCOMOTION written by J. BELL. PETTIGREW and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm S. Gordon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351966200
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by Malcolm S. Gordon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Locomotion: Physical Principles and Adaptations is a professional-level, state of the art review and reference summarizing the current understanding of macroscopic metazoan animal movement. The comparative biophysics, biomechanics and bioengineering of swimming, flying and terrestrial locomotion are placed in contemporary frameworks of biodiversity, evolutionary process, and modern research methods, including mathematical analysis. The intended primary audience is advanced-level students and researchers primarily interested in and trained in mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. Although not encyclopedic in its coverage, anyone interested in organismal biology, functional morphology, organ systems and ecological physiology, physiological ecology, molecular biology, molecular genetics and systems biology should find this book useful.
Author : James Bell Pettigrew
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ISBN 13 : 9783337396589
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (965 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Locomotion - Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics. Fourth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054486686X
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Flying Frogs and Walking Fish written by Steve Jenkins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In the latest eye-catching escape into the kingdom of Animalia, Caldecott Honor-winning team Jenkins and Page show how animals roll, fly, walk, leap, climb, swim and even flip! This fascinating and fun illustrated nonfiction melds science, art, biology, and the environment together in a detailed and well-researched book about how animals move in our world today.
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Download or read book Animal Locomotion Or Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aëronautics written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J Bell Pettigrew
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019416457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion Or Walking, Swimming, and Flying With a Dissertation of Aëronautics written by J Bell Pettigrew and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work from the 19th century examines the mechanics of animal locomotion, from the movement of insects and fish to the flight of birds. The author's pioneering research into the principles of aëronautics laid the groundwork for modern aviation, making this book essential reading for anyone interested in the science of motion. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. Bell Pettigrew
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368183397
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Animal Locomotion written by J. Bell Pettigrew and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Giovanni A. Borelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642738125
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book On the Movement of Animals written by Giovanni A. Borelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Motu animalium is sometimes referred to in the medical literature. But who has read it? The book, originally published in Latin, seemingly constitutes the very first treatise on biomechanics. The author, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608 - 1679), was professor of mathematics and physics in Pisa where he worked with Malpighi, who was professor of theoretical medicine and focused Borelli's interest on the movements of living creatures. This was the time of Galileo, Descartes, Newton and many others, when sciences exploded, sometimes leading to conflicts with religious authorities. De Motu animalium, Borelli's life work, has two parts. In the first part, he analyses the action of the muscles, the movements of the limbs and motions of man and animals, including skating, running, jumping, swimming and flying. The second part deals with what is now called physiology, considered from the point of view of a mechanist: heart beat, blood circulation, breathing, separation of urine from the blood in the kidneys, liver function, reproduction, fatigue, thirst, hunger, fever, and so on. This work shows Borelli to be a genial precursor. He expresses his opinion as a mathematician on problems which afterwards further stimulated the curiosity and endeavours of many generations of researchers. This book will be welcomed by anybody who is interested in the working of living bodies and in the history of human knowledge.
