About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 478. Chapters: Action, Dynamics, Flight, Force, Locomotion, Mechanics, Rotation, Travel, Units of velocity, Newton's laws of motion, Speed of light, Mechanical advantage, Statistical mechanics, Fundamental interaction, Precession, Angular momentum, Pulley, Torque, Kinetic energy, Coriolis effect, Centrifugal force, Tidal force, Acceleration, Friction, Casimir effect, Centripetal force, Running, Thrust, Climbing, Lift, Human leg, Action theory, Weight, Jumping, Conservative force, Bipedalism, Virial theorem, Metre per second, Collision, Gait, Quadrupedalism, Work, Moment of inertia, DBrn, Power-to-weight ratio, Newton's notation, Speed of sound, Reduced mass, Fifth force, Shock, Poisson's ratio, Pedestrian, Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics, Stress, Mechanics of planar particle motion, Fictitious force, Mechanical filter, Tensor derivative, Infinitesimal strain theory, Rotating locomotion in living systems, Flying and gliding animals, Rotation representation, Tradeoffs for locomotion in air and water, Sandwich theory, Rigid rotor, Bird flight, Role of skin in locomotion, Terrestrial locomotion, Truss, Insect flight, History of centrifugal and centripetal forces, Rock climbing, Comparative foot morphology, Rotational spectroscopy, Yield, Rotating reference frame, Parkinsonian gait, Variable speed of light, Bidirectional traffic, Mohr's circle, Rotation around a fixed axis, Q factor, Collision response, Trajectory, Animal locomotion, Tractive force, Arboreal locomotion, Spinal Locomotion, Undulatory locomotion, Lead, Homesickness, Knuckle-walking, Orders of magnitude, Computational Aeroacoustics, Circular motion, Gait analysis, Micro-Mechanics of Failure, Banked turn, Failure theory, Instant centre of rotation, Directional stability, Multibody system, Newtonian dynamics, Origin of avian flight, Absolute rotation, Contact dynamics, Aqu...
