Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life

ISBN-13: 9781472914118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Matin Durrani; Liz Kalaugher

Opis

The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navigate is due to polarized light, and why pistol shrimps can generate enough force to destroy aquarium glass using their elbows Each of Furry Logic's six chapters tackles a separate branch of physics and, through more than 30 animal case studies, examines each creature's key features before describing the ways physics is at play in its life, how the connection between physics and animal behavior was discovered, and what remains to be found out. Science journalists Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher make the incredible interdisciplinary world of animals accessible to all, in an enthralling and entertaining read."

Recenzje

Furry Logic is an important book that is equally inspiring and humbling. Science

Spis treści

Introduction: Furry PhysicsChapter 1: Heat: The Warm-up ChapterChapter 2: Forces: The Big PushChapter 3: Fluids: When Things Get StickierChapter 4: Sound: Good VibrationsChapter 5: Electricity and Magnetism: Let the Sparks FlyChapter 6: Light: A Final Physics FandangoConclusion: Life, the Universe and EverythingAcknowledgementsIndex

O autorze

Matin Durrani is editor of the international magazine Physics World, where he enjoys telling the stories that underpin physics and showing how it impacts so much of everyday life. Based in Bristol, UK, he first became intrigued by how animals use physics after publishing a special issue of Physics World on the subject in 2012. Matin has a degree in chemical physics and did a PhD and postdoc squashing food gels at Cambridge University before moving into publishing.@MatinDurrani Liz Kalaugher is a science and environment writer based in Bristol, UK. Fascinated by animals since a childhood encounter with a squashed frog, she is a particular fan of bats, bees and badgers. After winning journalism fellowships from the World Federation of Science Journalists and the European Geosciences Union, Liz has also reported on beluga whales in the Canadian Arctic and Finnish reindeer. She has a materials science degree from Oxford University and a PhD in thin-film diamond.@LizKalaugher