In addition to winning the prestigious Academic Award from the Association of American University Presses, the long-awaited Japanese translation of "Air and Water," which has been widely regarded as a biology textbook in English-speaking universities.
Why is it that there are almost no plankton on land, while the sea is filled with them? What is the countercurrent heat exchanger that keeps tuna muscles at high temperatures, enabling fast swimming? Were the sensory organs that evolved in seawater, which has an extreme conductivity 20 billion times that of air, transferable to land animals? What is the "footing" that the water strider uses to kick off the frictionless (smooth) water surface while standing on the water surface with its water-repellent limbs? Many biologists struggle to explain the mechanisms of life between terrestrial and aquatic organisms well in terms of the physics of the media (air and water). This is the purpose of this book.
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"Physics of Water and Air for Biology" ■Format: B5 size, 444 pages ■Price: 12,000 yen + tax ■Original Book: 'Air and Water: The Biology and Physics of Life's Media' (1993) Princeton University Press (USA) ■Original Author: Mark W. Denny ■Translation: Tatsuwo Shimozawa (Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University) ■Published by: NTS Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Environment is All Fluid Chapter 3: Physics as a Tool and Its Basics Chapter 4: Density: Weight, Pressure, and Fluid Dynamics Chapter 5: Viscosity: How Easily Do Fluids Flow? Chapter 6: Diffusion: Stumbling Through Air and Water Chapter 7: Density and Viscosity Together: The Various Faces of Reynolds Number Chapter 8: Thermal Properties: Body Temperature in Air and Water Chapter 9: Electrical Resistance and the Sixth Sense Chapter 10: Sound in Air and Water: Listening to the Surroundings Chapter 11: Light in Air and Water Chapter 12: Surface Tension: The Energy of Interfaces Chapter 13: Surface Waves Chapter 14: Transpiration: Drought Resistance and Cooling Maintenance Chapter 15: Conclusion
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