R. John Solaro • Jil C. Tardiff
Editors
2013
Perusal of the contents of any basic textbook in physics gives a list of the topics that are of relevance to biological processes and in the examples given in this book to the heart in health and in failure. The breakdown falls along the lines of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, sound, and optics. In one way or another, each of these topics in physics comes into play in the biophysics of the heart. Chapters in this volume provide strong evidence of the significance of biophysical principles in our understanding of the normal mechanical, energetic, and electrical aspects of how the heart functions normally and how it fails in this function in response to diverse forms of stress.