Air and Water: The Biology and Physics of Life's Media
- ISBN-10
- 0691025185
- ISBN-13
- 9780691025186
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 341
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Mark Denny
Description
How do whirligig beetles use ripples as a form of sonar, and why can't mosquitoes detect the electrical activity of their prey as sharks can? Readers of Air and Water will be well rewarded by thinking about these and other questions in the context of physics.
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