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Principles of Environmental Physics

T R Barrass

Physics Bulletin, 1974

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John L Monteith London: Edward Arnold 1973 pp xiii + 241 price cased £6, paperback £3 Environmental physics is defined here as the study of the physical processes which determine how living organisms respond to their environment. After a brief review of some topics from the gas laws, transport phenomena and radiation physics, the bulk of the book deals with radiation exchange and heat, mass and momentum transfer as applicable to biological systems.

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