Acoustic Systems in Biology
Published on 1. October 1992
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-19-506940-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a practical guide for researchers and advanced graduate students in biology and biophysics who need a quantitative understanding of acoustical systems such as hearing, sound production, and vibration detection in animals at the physiological level. It begins with an introduction to physical acoustics directed explicitly at their needs, covering the fundamental concepts and showing how they can be applied quantitatively to understand animals' auditory and sound-producing systems. Only after the relatively simple mechanical part of the system is explained does the author focus his attention on the underlying physiological processes.
Reviews / Votes
The book's strength lies as a sourcebook of essential formulae and thumbnail physical descriptions ... this is a book to which all committed auditory researchers should at least have access. It is a serious attempt to educate students and researchers to the idea that some areas of physiology may be better described with the help of a little, but quite approachable, mathematics.' * Jonathan Ashmore, Experimental Physiology - Volume 78, 1993 * The author sets out to cover the material at three levels, and to this reviewer he succeeds almost totally. The book will certainly be extremely valuable for biologists or others who study the physiology of motion sensing, hearing, and sound production in animals. The clarity of the explanations will also make it useful for anyone who wishes to understand the behaviour of sound in small spaces and in mechanical structures, whatever the application may be.' * H.A. Dillon, Australian & New Zealand Physicist, Volume 31, Number 4, April 1994 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
687 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506940-2 (9780195069402)
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Additional editions
Neville H. Fletcher
Acoustic Systems in Biology
E-Book
07/1992
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€86.99
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Content
Introduction; Simple vibrators; Vibrations of strings and bars; Sensory hairs and otoliths; Vibration of membranes, plates, and shells; Acoustic waves; Acoustic sources and radiation; Low-frequency network models; Low-frequency auditory models; Pipes and horns; High-frequency auditory models; The inner ear; Mechanically excited sound generators; Pneumatically excited sound generators; Signals, noise, and information; Appendices; Index.