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Prepare Your Expectations
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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table Of Contents
  6. Why Use Body Physics?
  7. When to use Body Physics
  8. How to use Body Physics
  9. Tasks Remaining and Coming Improvements
  10. Who Created Body Physics?
  11. Unit 1: Purpose and Preparation
    1. The Body's Purpose
    2. The Purpose of This Texbook
    3. Prepare to Overcome Barriers
    4. Prepare to Struggle
    5. Prepare Your Expectations
    6. Prepare Your Strategy
    7. Prepare Your Schedule
    8. Unit 1 Review
    9. Unit 1 Practice and Assessment
  12. Unit 2: Measuring the Body
    1. Jolene's Migraines
    2. The Scientific Process
    3. Scientific Models
    4. Measuring Heart Rate
    5. Heart Beats Per Lifetime
    6. Human Dimensions
    7. Body Surface Area
    8. Dosage Calculations
    9. Unit 2 Review
    10. Unit 2 Practice and Assessment
  13. Unit 3: Errors in Body Composition Measurement
    1. Body Mass Index
    2. The Skinfold Method
    3. Pupillary Distance Self-Measurement
    4. Working with Uncertainties
    5. Other Methods of Reporting Uncertainty*
    6. Unit 3 Review
    7. Unit 3 Practice and Assessment
  14. Unit 4: Better Body Composition Measurement
    1. Body Density
    2. Body Volume by Displacement
    3. Body Weight
    4. Measuring Body Weight
    5. Body Density from Displacement and Weight
    6. Under Water Weight
    7. Hydrostatic Weighing
    8. Unit 4 Review
    9. Unit 4 Practice and Assessment
  15. Unit 5: Maintaining Balance
    1. Balance
    2. Center of Gravity
    3. Supporting the Body
    4. Slipping
    5. Friction in Joints
    6. Tipping
    7. Human Stability
    8. Tripping
    9. Types of Stability
    10. The Anti-Gravity Lean
    11. Unit 5 Review
    12. Unit 5 Practice and Assessment
  16. Unit 6: Strength and Elasticity of the Body
    1. Body Levers
    2. Forces in the Elbow Joint
    3. Ultimate Strength of the Human Femur
    4. Elasticity of the Body
    5. Deformation of Tissues
    6. Brittle Bones
    7. Equilibrium Torque and Tension in the Bicep*
    8. Alternative Method for Calculating Torque and Tension*
    9. Unit 6 Review
    10. Unit 6 Practice and Assessment
  17. Unit 7: The Body in Motion
    1. Falling
    2. Drag Forces on the Body
    3. Physical Model for Terminal Velocity
    4. Analyzing Motion
    5. Accelerated Motion
    6. Accelerating the Body
    7. Graphing Motion
    8. Quantitative Motion Analysis
    9. Falling Injuries
    10. Numerical Simulation of Skydiving Motion*
    11. Unit 7 Review
    12. Unit 7 Practice and Assessment
  18. Unit 8: Locomotion
    1. Overcoming Inertia
    2. Locomotion
    3. Locomotion Injuries
    4. Collisions
    5. Explosions, Jets, and Rockets
    6. Safety Technology
    7. Crumple Zones
    8. Unit 8 Review
    9. Unit 8 Practice and Assessment
  19. Unit 9: Powering the Body
    1. Doing Work
    2. Jumping
    3. Surviving a Fall
    4. Powering the Body
    5. Efficiency of the Human Body
    6. Weightlessness*
    7. Comparing Work-Energy and Energy Conservation*
    8. Unit 9 Review
    9. Unit 9 Practice and Assessment
  20. Unit 10: Body Heat and The Fight for Life
    1. Homeostasis, Hypothermia, and Heatstroke
    2. Measuring Body Temperature
    3. Preventing Hypothermia
    4. Cotton Kills
    5. Wind-Chill Factor
    6. Space Blankets
    7. Thermal Radiation Spectra
    8. Cold Weather Survival Time
    9. Preventing Hyperthermia
    10. Heat Death
    11. Unit 10 Review
    12. Unit 10 Practice and Assessment Exercises
  21. Laboratory Activities
    1. Unit 2/3 Lab: Testing a Terminal Speed Hypothesis
    2. Unit 4 Lab: Hydrostatic Weighing
    3. Unit 5 Lab: Friction Forces and Equilibrium
    4. Unit 6 Lab: Elastic Modulus and Ultimate Strength
    5. Unit 7 Lab: Accelerated Motion
    6. Unit 8 Lab: Collisions
    7. Unit 9 Lab: Energy in Explosions
    8. Unit 10 Lab: Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
  22. Design-Build-Test Projects
    1. Scale Biophysical Dead-lift Model
    2. Biophysical Model of the Arm
    3. Mars Lander
  23. Glossary

5

Prepare Your Expectations

This course is an introductory level science course, which typically means the students are expected to remember, understand, apply, and at times analyze the concepts covered in the course. These expectations correspond to the first four levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, a tool for categorizing thinking and learning, also known as cognition. Further into your academic timeline you will take courses with higher numbers and greater focus on the upper levels. However, to better prepare you for success in a complex world, this course may also use guided projects to expose you to the higher level cognitive processes.

This diagram shows a triangle broken into equally thick horizontal sections, creating a large area section on the bottom moving up to successively smaller area sections toward the top. The sections are labeled with the cognitive levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and descriptions of the labels. From top to bottom the sections are: remember (recall facts and basic concepts), understand (explain ideas or concepts), apply (use information in new situations), analyze (draw connections among ideas), evaluate (justify a stand or decision), create (produce new or original work).
This course focuses on the lower portion Bloom’s Taxonomy, but at times you will have the opportunity to analyze, evaluate, and create. Be sure to use your instructor as a resource while working at any cognitive level.

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The following table uses the concept of conservation of energy to illustrate of how students might be expected to participate in each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy within an introductory physics course.

The first column of a table contains the same color-coded labels as the blooms taxonomy triangle. Example situations are described in the second column. From top to bottom: Remember: Memorize a small number of basic physics principles or laws, such as the principle of conservation of energy. Understand: Explain how conservation of energy puts limits on what your body can do physically. Apply: use the principle of conservation of energy to figure out how fast you would be moving after falling from a two story building. Analyze: Use conservation of energy to distinguish between plausible and implausible results. Do experiments in the lab to test the principle of conservation energy. Evaluate: Use conservation of energy to evaluate the likelihood of truth behind claims made by various diet and exercise plans. Create: Design and construct models of sections of the human musculoskeletal system and use conservation of energy to predict how they will behave.
Connection of cognitive levels to various actions performed in this course.

Reinforcement Exercises

An interactive or media element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can view it online here:
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/bodyphysics/?p=204

  1. "Blooms Taxonomy" by Vanderbilt Center for Teaching and Learning is licensed under CC BY 4.0 ↵

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