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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      20 April 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511754890
      9780521772006
      9780521777032
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754890
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 254 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 254 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Mathematical Biology, Life Sciences, Physiology and Biological Physics
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    Thinking quantitatively about physiology is something many students find difficult. However, it is fundamentally important to a proper understanding of many of the concepts involved. In this enlarged second edition of his popular textbook, Richard Burton gives the reader the opportunity to develop a feel for values such as ion concentrations, lung and fluid volumes, blood pressures etc. through the use of calculations which require little more than simple arithmetic for their solution. Much guidance is given on how to avoid errors and the usefulness of approximation and 'back-of-envelope sums'. Energy metabolism, nerve and muscle, blood and the cardiovascular system, respiration, renal function, body fluids and acid-base balance are all covered, making this book essential reading for students (and teachers) of physiology everywhere, both those who shy away from numbers and those who revel in them.

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    "Burton offers a well designed set of quantitative problems and carefully shows the reader how to solve them...I found that even with all my experience in mammalian physiology, the quantitative questions and answers in this book gave me further insights into several physiological processes." Growth, Development & Aging

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