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ISBN: 9780123742995 - Modelling the Flying Bird Modelling the Flying Bird
C J Pennycuick

ISBN10: 0123742994  ISBN13: 9780123742995
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Academic Press Inc
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Aug 2008
Colin Pennycuick has been modelling bird flight for many years. In this book he explains his Flight program, and outlines the mechanics of flight as applied to birds and other flying vertebrates. The first half covers the power requirements for... More

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ISBN: 9780226655079 - Conversion Factors Conversion Factors
C J Pennycuick

ISBN10: 0226655075  ISBN13: 9780226655079
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: 19th
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 1988
This invaluable reference manual provides well-organized tables of over 2100 conversion factors for measures ranging from time and length to metabolic rate and viscosity. An index defines each term: acres, dynes, joules, liters, knots, and so on. More

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ISBN: 9780198540212 - Newton Rules Biology Newton Rules Biology
C J Pennycuick

ISBN10: 0198540213  ISBN13: 9780198540212
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Apr 1992
Aiming to encourage biologists to think about biological processes in Newtonian terms, this text demonstrates how physical laws operate at all levels, from cells to ecosystems, and shows how to apply them. It argues that rediscovering the nature... More

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ISBN: 9780198577218 - Bird Flight Performance Bird Flight Performance
C J Pennycuick

ISBN10: 0198577214  ISBN13: 9780198577218
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Jul 1989
This practical manual has been designed for bird ecologists who need to estimate the amounts of energy used for flight by foraging birds, the distances migrants can fly non-stop and comparisons of wing-flapping and gliding. A disc with three BASIC... More

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ISBN: 9780713123562 - Animal Flight Animal Flight
C J Pennycuick

ISBN10: 0713123567  ISBN13: 9780713123562
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1976

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ISBN: 9780198540205 - Newton Rules Biology Newton Rules Biology
C J Pennycuick

ISBN10: 0198540205  ISBN13: 9780198540205
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 Apr 1992
Aiming to encourage biologists to think about biological processes in Newtonian terms, this text demonstrates how physical laws operate at all levels, from cells to ecosystems, and shows how to apply them. It argues that rediscovering the nature... More

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ISBN: 9780123742995 - Modelling the Flying Bird Modelling the Flying Bird
Pennycuick, C J

ISBN10: 9780080557816  ISBN13: 9780080557816
Publisher: Elsevier Science Academic Press
Format: Electronic Book
This book outlines the principles of flight, of birds in particular. It describes a way of simplifying the mechanics of flight into a practical computer program, which will predict in some detail what any bird, real or hypothetical... More