Pulling G: Human Responses to High and Low Gravity

by Erik Seedhouse

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Performing in a high G environment is extremely demanding on the body: pulling G forces blood to the body's extremities, putting the pilot, astronaut or driver at risk of G-Induced Lack of Consciousness (G-LOC). In "Pulling G" Erik Seedhouse describes what it feels like to pull 7 G in a fighter plane and the G pressures on the body when driving a Formula 1 car and many other gravity-defying vehicles. The book relates, for the first time, the effects...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1461430291

ISBN13:9781461430292

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:Springer

Length:210 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"

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