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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Engineering Animals
Author: Mark DennyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance-when understood as marvels of engineering-are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.
Engineers and Engineering
Author: U.S. Scientists and Engineers
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Engineering
Author: Engineering Hydrology for Natural Resources Engineers
Author: Ernest W. TollnerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118928741
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This fully revised edition provides a modern overview of the intersection of hydrology, water quality, and water management at the rural-urban interface. The book explores the ecosystem services available in wetlands, natural channels and ponds/lakes. As in the first edition, Part I examines the hydrologic cycle by providing strategies for quantifying each component: rainfall (with NOAH 14), infiltration, evapotranspiration and runoff. Part II examines field and farm scale water quality with an introduction to erosion prediction and water quality. Part III provides a concise examination of water management on the field and farm scale, emphasizing channel design, field control structures, measurement structures, groundwater processes and irrigation principles. Part IV then concludes the text with a treatment of basin-scale processes. A comprehensive suite of software tools is available for download, consisting of Excel spreadsheets, with some public domain models such as HY-8 culvert design, and software with public domain readers such as Mathematica, Maple and TK solver.
The World of Animals
Author: Joseph Wood KrutchPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412843308
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This collection of writings selected from a vast literature about animals contributes something to an over-all picture of human beings' relations with and attitudes toward the animal kingdom.
The Journal of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia and Affiliated Societies
Author: Engineers Club of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Journal of the Cleveland Engineering Society ...
Author: Cleveland Engineering SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Author: Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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