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| Other authors / contributors: | Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9780750332071
9780750332064
9780750332057
9780750332088
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| Notes: | "Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print.
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Benjamin de Mayo is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of West Georgia. For 24 years, de Mayo has received a grant from Georgia Space Grant Consortium (NASA) to do research with undergraduate science majors and to present science programs for the public and for school groups. His research areas are high temperature superconductivity, nano-diamonds, oil sand extraction, and electronic kinetic sculpture.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 14, 2021).
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| Summary: | This non-technical book examines the everyday physics behind hearing and vision to help readers understand more about themselves and their physical environment. It begins with a thorough discussion of sound and light waves then goes on to discuss how our eyes and ears gather and process information from those waves. The ears and eyes are examined in their physical form in humans as well as in other members of the animal kingdom to show differences in how each receive information from the same waves and how hearing and vision may have evolved in humans. The book also discusses the perception of sound by examples such as sound intensity, decibels, and masking, while also covering the basis of music and resonance. Vision and the perception of light and colour are also discussed at length including the psychology of colour perception and colour mixing. The second edition includes the latest developments in hearing and vision. New topics include hearing and vision aids, electron microscopy, the third eye (pineal body), vision and hearing gene therapies and new remote sensing techniques.
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| Target Audience: | General audience interested in the physics of hearing and vision.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9780750332057 9780750332088
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| Standard no.: | 10.1088/978-0-7503-3207-1
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