A reissue of a classic book, corrected, edited, and typeset, to be published in the Biological Physics Series. Intended for undergraduate courses in biophysics, biological physics, physiology, medical physics, and biomedical engineering, this book is an introduction to mechanics with examples and problems from the medical and biological sciences. The book covers standard topics of kinematics, dynamics, statics, momentum, and feeedback, control and stability but with emphasis on physical and biological systems. Chapters include problems and references. The book can be used as a supplement to standard introductory physics courses, and as a text for medical schools, medical physics courses, and biology departments. The three volumes combined present all the major topics in physics. Originally published in 1974 from the authors's typescript, this reissue will be edited, corrected, typeset, the art redrawn, and an index added. These books are being reissued by Springer in the Biological Physics Series in response to frequent requests to provide these texts to satisfy the growing need among students and practitioners in the medical and biological sciences with a working knowledge of the physical sciences. The books are also in demand in physics departments either as supplements to traditional intro texts or as main text for those departments offering courses with biological or medical physics orientation. A solutions manual will be available. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and are under contract for an upperlevel/grad text in biological physics. Benedeck was the recepient of the 1995 Irving Lanmuir Prize from the American Physical Society for Chemical Physics, and the 1994 Biological Physics Prize by the American Physical Society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Kinematics. - 1. 1 Introduction. - 1. 2 Motion in One Dimension: Velocity and Acceleration. - 1. 3 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions: Velocity and Acceleration. - 1. 4 Units and Conversion Factors. - 1. 5 References and Supplementary Reading. - 1. 6 Problems. - 2 Dynamics. - 2. 1 Introduction. - 2. 2 Newton s First Law: The Law of Inertia. - 2. 3 Newton s Second Law of Motion. - 2. 4 Newton s Third Law of Motion: The Law of Action and Reaction. - 2. 5 The Fundamental Forces of Physics. - 2. 6 Nonfundamental or Derived Forces. - 2. 7 Newton s Laws Applied to Problems in Dynamics. - 2. 8 References and Supplementary Reading. - 2. 9 Problems. - 3 Static Equilibrium and the Forces Acting on Muscles and Bone within the Human Body. - 3. 1 Introduction. - 3. 2 Conditions of Static Equilibrium. - 3. 3 Applications of Statics. - 3. 4 Static Equilibrium of Deformable Bodies: Stress, Strain, and Fracture. - 3. 5 Static Equilibrium of Fluids. - 3. 6 References and Supplementary Reading. - 3. 7 Problems. - 4 Momentum. - 4. 1 Introduction. - 4. 2 Momentum and the Dynamics of a System of Many Particles. - 4. 3 Motion of the Center of Mass of an Extended Body. - 4. 4 Conservation of Momentum. - 4. 5 Ballistocardiography. - 4. 6 Impulse and the Change of Momentum. - 4. 7 Flow of Mass and Momentum. Transport in Fluids. - 4. 8 References and Supplementary Reading. - 4. 9 Problems. - 5 Work and Energy. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 Work, Kinetic Energy, and Power in One-Dimensional Motion. - 5. 2. H. Units and Conversion Factors. - 5. 3 Work, Energy, and Power in Three Dimensions. - 5. 4 The First Law of Thermodynamics. - 5. 5 Rotational Motion. - 5. 6 References and Supplementary Reading. - 5. 7 Problems. - 6 Feedback, Control, and Stability in Physical and Biological Systems. - 6. 1 Introduction. - 6. 3 Temperature Control Using Feedback. - 6. 4 Control of BodyTemperature. - 6. 5 Control of Blood Glucose Level. - 6. 6 References and Supplementary Reading. - 6. 7 Problems.
