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Biodynamics: Why the Wirewalker Doesn't Fall
ISBN: 978-0-471-34619-7
Hardcover
456 pages
December 2003
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Preface.

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.

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