Download Scaling PDF/eBook
By:Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Published on 1984-07-27 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521319874
Synopsis
This short, non-mathematical discussion of how the physical size of an animal affects its physiological functions can be read profitably by both students and professional scientists. Elegantly written, the book illuminates those physical laws controlling rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and so on. It shows how these laws have profound implications for animals of widely different size and scale and why the size of living things is of such fundamental importance.
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