Principles of Animal Locomotion Free

Author: R. McNeill Alexander
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0691086788

Principles of Animal Locomotion

How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. Download Principles of Animal Locomotion from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. his text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The intro Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.