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Response in the Living and Non-Living
Jagadis Chandra Bose
A plant flinches when you shock it, and Jagadis Chandra Bose built instruments delicate enough to prove it. He records the electric response of plants and even non-living matter, arguing that the line between them is thinner than we think. Startling, elegant experimental science from a great Indian physicist. Watch a leaf answer a stimulus like a nerve.
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66 chapters
- 1RESPONSE IN THE LIVING AND NON-LIVING
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF LIVING SUBSTANCES
- 5CHAPTER II ELECTRIC RESPONSE
- 6CHAPTER III ELECTRIC RESPONSE IN PLANTS—METHOD OF NEGATIVE VARIATION
- 7CHAPTER IV ELECTRIC RESPONSE IN PLANTS—BLOCK METHOD
- 8CHAPTER V PLANT RESPONSE—ON THE EFFECTS OF SINGLE STIMULUS AND OF SUPERPOSED STIMULI
- 9CHAPTER VI PLANT RESPONSE—ON DIPHASIC VARIATION
- 10CHAPTER VII PLANT RESPONSE—ON THE RELATION BETWEEN STIMULUS AND RESPONSE
- 11CHAPTER VIII PLANT RESPONSE—ON THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE
- 12CHAPTER IX PLANT RESPONSE—EFFECT OF ANÆSTHETICS AND POISONS
- 13CHAPTER X RESPONSE IN METALS
- 14CHAPTER XI INORGANIC RESPONSE—MODIFIED APPARATUS TO EXHIBIT RESPONSE IN METALS
- 15CHAPTER XII INORGANIC RESPONSE—METHOD OF ENSURING CONSISTENT RESULTS
- 16CHAPTER XIII INORGANIC RESPONSE—MOLECULAR MOBILITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON RESPONSE
- 17CHAPTER XIV INORGANIC RESPONSE—FATIGUE, STAIRCASE, AND MODIFIED RESPONSE
- 18CHAPTER XV INORGANIC RESPONSE—RELATION BETWEEN STIMULUS AND RESPONSE—SUPERPOSITION OF STIMULI
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