
Essential Physics, Chemistry and Biology
D.F. Horrobin(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 28. February 1971
Book
Paperback/Softback
125 pages
978-0-85200-011-3 (ISBN)
Description
of these subjects and should be kept constantly at hand so that it can readily be consulted when difficult topics arise. I hope that it may succeed in reducing the fear with which many nurses face the sciences with which the book deals. Section 1 BIOLOGY 2 The cell and its requirements The world of living things is conveniently and conven tionally divided into two great groups, the animals and the plants. Broadly speaking the important feature which distinguishes plants is that they can manufacture most of the substances they require by trapping and using various forms of outside energy, in particular the energy of sunlight. In the process of photosynthesis they utilize the energy of light to build up complex chemical substances from relatively simple ones. In contrast, animals lack the ability to use light or any other form of outside energy. Instead they must obtain the energy they require by breaking down complex substances which ultimately they always obtain from plants. Plant-eating animals such as cows and sheep obtain these substances directly. Carnivores obtain them indirectly after they have passed through the bodies of other animals.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1971
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
125 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85200-011-3 (9780852000113)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-011-6118-3
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D.F. Horrobin
Essential Physics, Chemistry and Biology
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12/2012
Springer
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Content
1 Physics, chemistry and biology. Introduction.- Biology.- 2 The cell and its requirements.- 3 The functioning of larger animals.- Chemistry.- 4 The structure of chemical substances.- 5 Isotopes and radioactivity.- 6 Solutions.- 7 The importance of osmotic pressure.- 8 Acids, bases and buffers.- Physics.- 9 Heat.- 10 Liquids.- 11 Gases.- 12 Electricity.- 13 Units, decimals and graphs.