Physics for biology and pre-medical students
By: Desmond M. Burns, Simon G. G. Macdonald.
Contributors: MacDonald, Simon G. G., joint author.
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: World student series
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishers
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London; Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 665
Subjects: Physics.
Description: This is the second edition of the successful general physics text, written specifically for biology and pre-medical students.
 The authors concentrate on those topics which are of direct relevance to biology and medicine. Thus, they give a clear account of the principles of mechanics, optics, and electricity, and in shorter sections deal with heat, sound, electronics and modern physics. The authors' overall aim is to show why an understanding of physics is essential if modern advances in biology and medicine are to be understood.
 "The reading knowledge of mathematics" which the authors' feel is essential in understanding physics is introduced in the text. Simple calculus and vector representation is brought in through the physics and there is a separate chapter on statistics
Notes: Includes index.