Overview: Expanded and updated new edition of a widely adopted textbook.Introduces the macrophysics of body physiology, a subject highly relevant to students in physics, biomedical engineering and medicine.PresThis book comprehensively addresses the physics 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 mechanical properties of the body, muscles in the body, the energetics of body metabolism, fluid flow in the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, the
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