Physics of the Human Body Authors (view affiliations) Irving P. Herman Book 39 Citations 6 Mentions 34 Readers 1 Reviews 48k Downloads Part of the Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering book series (BIOMEDICAL)
Table of contents 1. Front Matter Pages I-XIX PDF 2. Terminology, the Standard Human, and Scaling Pages 1-36 3. Statics of the Body Pages 37-92 4. Motion Pages 93-192 5. Mechanical Properties of the Body Pages 193-269 6. Muscles Pages 271-317 7. Metabolism: Energy, Heat, Work, and Power of the Body Pages 319-403 8. Fluid Pressure, Fluid Flow in the Body, and Motion in Fluids Pages 405-441 9. Cardiovascular System Pages 443-523 10. Lungs and Breathing Pages 525-553 11. Sound, Speech, and Hearing Pages 555-628 12. Light, Eyes, and Vision Pages 629-711 13. Electrical and Magnetic Properties Pages 713-765 14. Feedback and Control Pages 767-780 15. Back Matter Pages 781-857 PDF
About this book Introduction Physics of the Human Body comprehensively addresses the physical and engineering aspects of human physiology by using and building on first-year college physics and mathematics. Topics include the mechanics of the static body and the body in motion, the materials properties of the body, muscles in the body, the energetics of body metabolism, fluid flow in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, the acoustics of sound waves in speaking and hearing, vision and the optics of the eye, the electrical properties of the body, and the basic engineering principles of feedback and control in regulating all aspects of function. The goal of this text is to understand physical issues concerning the human body, in part by developing and then using simple and subsequently more refined models of the macrophysics of the human body. Many chapters include a brief review of the necessary physical principles. There are problems at the end of each chapter; solutions to selected problems are also provided. This text is geared to undergraduates interested in physics, medical applications of physics, quantitative physiology, medicine, and biomedical engineering.
Keywords Biophysics Human body Physics biomedical engineering mechanics metabolism physiology respiration statics
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Irving P. Herman (1) 1. Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, USA
Bibliographic information DOI (Digital Object Identifier) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29604-1 Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg eBook Packages Physics and Astronomy Print ISBN 978-3-540-29603-4 Online ISBN 978-3-540-29604-1 Series Print ISSN 1618-7210 About this book
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