Description
Book SynopsisAims to integrate physical laws and principles with concepts of fractals, chaos, and randomness. This book describes both the large scale, smooth aspects of locomotion and the more minute, randomized mechanisms of this physiological process. It is useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and instructors in medicine, and biology.
Trade Review"...a very good and useful book, with excellent coverage of scientific materials to explain biodynamics." (
American Journal of Human Biology, January/February 2006)
"...highly recommended for medical professionals working on evaluation of human body performance..." (Medical Physics, August 2004)
"This book belongs in all collections that cover biology, engineering and general science." (E-Streams, Vol. 7, No. 6)
Table of ContentsPreface.
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE.
Chapter 1. Ways of Knowing.
Chapter 2. Ways of Thinking.
Chapter 3. Mechanics—A First Look.
PART II: DYNAMICS, THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTION.
Chapter 4. Measures of Motion.
Chapter 5. Energy—The Source of It All.
Chapter 6. Linear Physics.
Chapter 7. Biomechanics 1—Rectilinear Motion.
Chapter 8. Biomechanics 2—Rotational Motion.
PART III: FIELDS—HOW COMPLEX SYSTEMS MOVE.
Chapter 9. Bioelectricity—Signals in the Body.
Chapter 10. Molecules and Metabolism—Unseen Causes.
Chapter 11. Bioenergetics—The Dynamics of Heat.
Chapter 12. Fluids at Rest.
Chapter 13. Fluids in Motion.
PART IV: DATA ANALYSIS—WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM MEASUREMENTS.
Chapter 14. Biostatistics 1—When Things Converge.
Chapter 15. Biostatistics 2—When Things Diverge.
Chapter 16. Biodynamic Time Series 1—Stride Rate Variability.
Chapter 17. Biodynamic Time Series 2—Heart Rate Variability.
Chapter 18. Biodynamic Time Series 3—Breathing Rate Variability.
Epilogue.
PART V: MICROBIOGRAPHIES—THE SCIENTISTS WHO MADE HISTORY.
References.
Index.
