Contributions
Moving fluids tutorials
Lecture materials, In-class activity, Instructor supplement, Restricted accessFluids are essential to life for transportation of food, waste, signals, organisms and propagules.
Healthy Cardiovascular Function, Biomechanical, Physical Mechanisms
Static Pressure, Flow Rate, Bernoulli's Principle, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity
Dawn Meredith
Daniel Young
Exponential functions
Instructor supplement, Restricted access, Lab, Lecture materials, Homework, Exam problem, In-class activity, Clicker questionConnect exponential equation to cooling, chemical reactions, metabolic rates and filtration rates
Thermoregulation, Renal/Urinary, Metabolism
Heat Transfer, RC Circuits
Dawn Meredith
Christopher Shubert
Sedimentation and Analytic Ultracentrifugation
In-class activity, Instructor supplement, Restricted accessForces are used to investigate how centrifugation and sedimentation can characterize small particles.
Pressure & Fluid Diagnostics
Velocity, 2D Acceleration, Force & Acceleration, Density and Buoyancy
Dawn Meredith
Thermoregulation problem set
In-class activity, Homework, Exam problem, Instructor supplement, Restricted accessProblems that highlight the challenges of being at the right temperature
Thermoregulation
Temperature, Heat Transfer, Heat Capacity, Latent Heat
Dawn Meredith
Heat and Gas Exchangers
Instructor supplement, Clicker question, Lecture materials, Homework, Exam problem, Restricted access, In-class activityGulls use exchangers to save energy with warm cores and cold feet. Fish gills operate analogously
Physical Mechanisms, Surface Area/volume, Thermoregulation
Heat Transfer
Dawn Meredith
Conference on Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences Report
Commentary, Reading/resource list, Report, PresentationRecommendations and guidelines from the 2014 NSF-supported IPLS Conference, attended by more than 150 faculty members
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Eric Brewe
Juan Burciaga
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