From the Book - Regular Print - Second edition.
1.1 Form and Locomotion 1 --
1.2 Dynamic Similarity 6 --
2 Dragging, Floating, and Jumping 15 --
2.1 Terminal Speed of Free-Falling Bodies 15 --
2.2 Drifting in Air 18 --
2.3 Drifting in Water 22 --
2.4 Jumping and Free Falling 25 --
3 Flight by Gliding 33 --
3.1 Wing Characteristics 33 --
3.2 Flight in Birds 42 --
3.3 Wind Effects on Gliding Flight 61 --
3.4 Auxiliary Devices 72 --
3.5 Other Forms of Gliding Flight 78 --
4 Flight by Beating 123 --
4.1 Powered Flight 123 --
4.2 Flight in Birds 149 --
4.3 Power-Saving Flight 181 --
4.4 Flight in Insects 200 --
4.5 Flight Mechanics in Insects 221 --
4.6 Statistical Data on Wings 259 --
4.7 Human-Powered Flight 262 --
5 Swimming by Snaking 277 --
5.1 Micro- and Medium-Sized Elongate Organisms 277 --
5.2 Undulatory Motion of a Large Elongate Body 294 --
6 Swimming by Fanning 313 --
6.2 Slender Bodies 335 --
6.3 Fanning Mechanics 345 --
6.4 Cetacea and Sirenia 375 --
7 Swimming by Other Methods 387 --
7.1 Paddling and Whipping 387 --
7.6 Skating and Wave Riding 428 --
8 Supplements and Summary 435 --
8.1 Wing Types and Body Forms 435 --
8.2 Kinematics of Body and Wing Motion 437 --
8.3 Kinetics of Body Motion 458 --
8.4 Local Momentum Theory and Local Circulation Method 469 --
8.5 Concluding Remarks by Chapter 476.