Pulling G: Human Responses to High and Low Gravity

by Erik Seedhouse

Book Overview

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"