Why is it a bad idea to hold your breath when you strain? Why does dust collect on the blades of a fan? These seemingly unrelated questions--and many, many more--are answered in the pages of Vital Circuits , an original and often witty guide to the workings of the circulatory system. Vogel ranges across physics, fluid mechanics, and chemistry to show how an enormous--and enormously complex--system of pumps and pipes works to keep the human body functioning, offering insight into such items as how heart disease develops and ...
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Why is it a bad idea to hold your breath when you strain? Why does dust collect on the blades of a fan? These seemingly unrelated questions--and many, many more--are answered in the pages of Vital Circuits , an original and often witty guide to the workings of the circulatory system. Vogel ranges across physics, fluid mechanics, and chemistry to show how an enormous--and enormously complex--system of pumps and pipes works to keep the human body functioning, offering insight into such items as how heart disease develops and how other animals' systems differ from ours.
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