Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics

Name: Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics
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ISBN: 9780521576734

ISBN-10: 0521576733

ISBN-13: 9780521576734

Edition: 1999

Authors: Christopher McGowan

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This 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 by practical experiments and laboratory exercises.

Book details

List price: $86.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 7.20" wide x 10.04" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Christopher McGowan is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and Professor of Zoology at the University of Toronto.



Preface


Introduction



A matter of scale



Elasticity



Measuring the strengths of materials



How things break



Bone as a composite material



Structures and loads



Engineering a skeleton



Friction, lubrication and joints



Muscles: the driving force of skeletons



Terrestrial locomotion



Fluid flow



Flight and flying



Swimming and swimmers


Appendix: chapter notes and responses to questions


References


Index