With In Search of Mechanisms, Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden offer both a descriptive and an instructional account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, Craver and Darden compile an impressive toolb…
Describes proven mechanisms and mechanical devices. Each illustration represents a design concept that can be recycled for use in new or modified mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic products. It contains chapters on mechanisms for converting renewable energy into elect…
Are human activities nothing but an outcome of mechanistic brain processes? The answer to this question is crucial to our general conception of the world. For if our actions are not determined in a mechanistic way we should have to radically revise the prevailing world picture a…
Beyond physics: or the idealisation of mechanism
This book discusses the application of probabilistics to the investigation of mechanical systems. The book shows, for example, how random function theory can be applied directly to the investigation of random processes in the deflection of cam profiles, pitch or gear teeth, pres…
This textbook has been completely revised and updated. Its contents have been reorganized to match better the sequence of topics typically covered and to reflect the many changes brought about by the use of computers in the classroom.