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- catalog abstract ""Animal Locomotion provides a clear foundation, based on physical biology and bio-mechanics for understanding the underlying mechanisms by which animals have evolved to move in their physical environment. It integrates the biomechanics of animal movement with the physiology of animal energetics and the neural control of locomotion. The author also communicates a sense of the awe and fascination that comes from watching the grace speed and power of animals in motion."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12935165.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Animal Locomotion provides a clear foundation, based on physical biology and bio-mechanics for understanding the underlying mechanisms by which animals have evolved to move in their physical environment. It integrates the biomechanics of animal movement with the physiology of animal energetics and the neural control of locomotion. The author also communicates a sense of the awe and fascination that comes from watching the grace speed and power of animals in motion."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-277) and index.".
- catalog description "Physical and biological properties and principles related to animal movement -- Why move? -- Environmental media -- Physics and energetics of movement -- Biomechanics of locomotor support -- Scaling: the importance of size -- Dimensions and units -- Muscles and skeletons: the building blocks of animal movement -- Muscles -- Skeletons -- Movement on land -- Biological wheels: why so few? -- Limbs as propulsors: support and swing phases -- Limb mechanical advantage and joint moments: interaction of limb posture and ground reaction force -- Locomotor gaits -- Maneuverability versus stability -- Stride frequency and stride length versus speed and size -- Mass-spring properties of running -- Froude number and dynamic similarity -- Inferring gait and speed of fossil animals -- Mechanical work: potential and kinetic energy changes during locomotion -- Muscle work versus force economy -- Tendon springs and muscle dampers -- Movement in water -- Thrust and drag -- Inertia, viscosity and Reynolds number -- Steady flow: drag and streamlines -- Swimming fish, mammals and cephalopods: movement at high Reynolds number -- Jet-based fluid propulsion -- Movement at low Reynolds number: the reversibility of flow -- Air-water interface: surface swimming, striding and sailing -- Muscle function and force transmission in swimming -- Movement in air -- Lift, drag and thrust in flight -- Power requirements for steady flight -- Gliding flight -- Flapping flight -- Flight motors and wing anatomy -- Maneuvering during flight -- Unsteady mechanisms.".
- catalog extent "xii, 281 p. :".
- catalog identifier "019850022X (alk. paper : PBK) :".
- catalog identifier "0198500238 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford animal biology series".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "573.791 21".
- catalog subject "Animal locomotion.".
- catalog subject "Animals.".
- catalog subject "Locomotion.".
- catalog subject "Physiology.".
- catalog subject "QP301 .B548 2003".
- catalog subject "WE 103 B589a 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Physical and biological properties and principles related to animal movement -- Why move? -- Environmental media -- Physics and energetics of movement -- Biomechanics of locomotor support -- Scaling: the importance of size -- Dimensions and units -- Muscles and skeletons: the building blocks of animal movement -- Muscles -- Skeletons -- Movement on land -- Biological wheels: why so few? -- Limbs as propulsors: support and swing phases -- Limb mechanical advantage and joint moments: interaction of limb posture and ground reaction force -- Locomotor gaits -- Maneuverability versus stability -- Stride frequency and stride length versus speed and size -- Mass-spring properties of running -- Froude number and dynamic similarity -- Inferring gait and speed of fossil animals -- Mechanical work: potential and kinetic energy changes during locomotion -- Muscle work versus force economy -- Tendon springs and muscle dampers -- Movement in water -- Thrust and drag -- Inertia, viscosity and Reynolds number -- Steady flow: drag and streamlines -- Swimming fish, mammals and cephalopods: movement at high Reynolds number -- Jet-based fluid propulsion -- Movement at low Reynolds number: the reversibility of flow -- Air-water interface: surface swimming, striding and sailing -- Muscle function and force transmission in swimming -- Movement in air -- Lift, drag and thrust in flight -- Power requirements for steady flight -- Gliding flight -- Flapping flight -- Flight motors and wing anatomy -- Maneuvering during flight -- Unsteady mechanisms.".
- catalog title "Animal locomotion / Andrew A. Biewener.".
- catalog type "text".