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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

Contents

  • Dedication
  • Why Use Body Physics?
    • It’s Free! And Open! And Accessible!
    • Design Theory
    • Hope and Hypothesis
  • When to use Body Physics
  • How to use Body Physics
    • The Adoption Process
    • Suggested Use of Design Features
  • Tasks Remaining and Coming Improvements
    • Continuous Improvement
  • Who Created Body Physics?
  • Part I. 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
    • Multitasking
    • Feedback
    • Study Strategy
  • 7. Prepare Your Schedule
  • 8. Unit 1 Review
  • 9. Unit 1 Practice and Assessment
  • Part II. Unit 2: Measuring the Body
  • 10. Jolene's Migraines
  • 11. The Scientific Process
    • Science as a Cycle
    • Laws, Principles and Theories
  • 12. Scientific Models
    • Physical and Empirical Models
    • Qualitative and Quantitative Models
    • Computer Models
  • 13. Measuring Heart Rate
    • Units
    • Unit Conversion
    • Standard Units
  • 14. Heart Beats Per Lifetime
    • Estimating Lifetime Heart Beats
    • Estimation and Approximation
    • Metric Prefixes
  • 15. Human Dimensions
    • Height (Length)
    • Range of Motion
  • 16. Body Surface Area
  • 17. Dosage Calculations
  • 18. Unit 2 Review
  • 19. Unit 2 Practice and Assessment
  • Part III. Unit 3: Errors in Body Composition Measurement
  • 20. Body Mass Index
    • Body Composition
    • Body Mass Index
  • 21. The Skinfold Method
    • The Skinfold Method
    • Skinfold Measurement Error
  • 22. Pupillary Distance Self-Measurement
  • 23. Working with Uncertainties
    • Error in Science
    • Uncertainty
    • Significant Figures
    • Method of Significant Figures
  • 24. Other Methods of Reporting Uncertainty*
  • 25. Unit 3 Review
  • 26. Unit 3 Practice and Assessment
  • Part IV. Unit 4: Better Body Composition Measurement
  • 27. Body Density
    • Body Fat Percentage from Body Density
    • Body Density
  • 28. Body Volume by Displacement
    • Volume by Displacement
    • Body Volume
  • 29. Body Weight
    • Weight as a Force
    • Free Body Diagrams
  • 30. Measuring Body Weight
    • Springs
    • Vectors
    • Weight with a Spring Scale
    • Digital Scales
  • 31. Body Density from Displacement and Weight
    • Mass from Weight
    • Calculating Body Density
    • Body Weight and Mass on the Moon
    • Universal Law of Gravitation*
  • 32. Under Water Weight
    • Apparent Weight
    • Static Equilibrium
    • Archimedes’ Principle
  • 33. Hydrostatic Weighing
    • Specific Gravity
    • Hydrostatic Weighing Equation Derivation
  • 34. Unit 4 Review
  • 35. Unit 4 Practice and Assessment
  • Part V. Unit 5: Maintaining Balance
  • 36. Balance
  • 37. Center of Gravity
    • Finding the Center of Gravity
    • Balance
  • 38. Supporting the Body
    • Support Force (Normal Force)
    • Normal Force and Weight
  • 39. Slipping
    • Slipping
    • Friction
  • 40. Friction in Joints
    • Synovial Joint Friction
  • 41. Tipping
    • Torque
    • Static Equilibrium
    • Tipping Point
  • 42. Human Stability
  • 43. Tripping
  • 44. Types of Stability
    • Stable Equilibrium
    • Unstable Equilibrium
    • Metastable Equilibrium
  • 45. The Anti-Gravity Lean
  • 46. Unit 5 Review
  • 47. Unit 5 Practice and Assessment
  • Part VI. Unit 6: Strength and Elasticity of the Body
  • 48. Body Levers
    • Leverage
    • Lever Classes
    • Static Equilibrium in Levers
    • Mechanical Advantage
    • Range of Motion
  • 49. Forces in the Elbow Joint
    • Horizontal Elbow Forces
  • 50. Ultimate Strength of the Human Femur
    • Compressing the Femur
    • Stress
    • Ultimate Strength of the Femur
    • Transverse Ultimate Strength
  • 51. Elasticity of the Body
    • Biceps Tension
    • Hooke’s Law
    • Strain
    • Elastic Modulus
  • 52. Deformation of Tissues
    • Stress vs. Strain Curves
    • Stress and Strain in Tendons
    • Stress and Strain Injuries
  • 53. Brittle Bones
  • 54. Equilibrium Torque and Tension in the Bicep*
    • Torque about the Elbow
    • Static Equilibrium
    • Bicep Tension
    • Symbol Form
  • 55. Alternative Method for Calculating Torque and Tension*
  • 56. Unit 6 Review
  • 57. Unit 6 Practice and Assessment
  • Part VII. Unit 7: The Body in Motion
  • 58. Falling
    • Patient Falls
    • Skydiving Free Fall
    • Physics Free Fall
  • 59. Drag Forces on the Body
    • Drag
  • 60. Physical Model for Terminal Velocity
    • Dynamic Equilibrium
    • Dependence of Terminal Velocity on Mass
    • A Physical Model for Terminal Velocity
    • Acceleration During a Skydive
  • 61. Analyzing Motion
    • Position
    • Velocity
  • 62. Accelerated Motion
    • Acceleration
    • Acceleration Direction
  • 63. Accelerating the Body
    • Newton’s Second Law of Motion
    • Free-Fall Acceleration
  • 64. Graphing Motion
    • Basic Motion Graphs
  • 65. Quantitative Motion Analysis
    • Kinematics
    • The Jerk
  • 66. Falling Injuries
  • 67. Numerical Simulation of Skydiving Motion*
  • 68. Unit 7 Review
  • 69. Unit 7 Practice and Assessment
  • Part VIII. Unit 8: Locomotion
  • 70. Overcoming Inertia
    • Newton’s Third Law of Motion
    • Third Law Pair Forces
    • Falling as Locomotion
  • 71. Locomotion
    • Active Locomotion
  • 72. Locomotion Injuries
    • Preventing Injuries
    • Softening Impacts
  • 73. Collisions
    • Collisions
    • Momentum
    • Conservation of Momentum
  • 74. Explosions, Jets, and Rockets
    • Explosions
    • Impulse
    • Jet Propulsion
    • Rocket Locomotion
  • 75. Safety Technology
    • Bounce is Bad
    • Air Bags
  • 76. Crumple Zones
    • Kinetic Energy
    • Elastic Potential Energy
    • Thermal Energy
    • Microscopic Kinetic Energy
    • Coefficient of Restitution
  • 77. Unit 8 Review
  • 78. Unit 8 Practice and Assessment
  • Part IX. Unit 9: Powering the Body
  • 79. Doing Work
    • Work
    • Calculating Work
  • 80. Jumping
    • Work-Energy Principle
  • 81. Surviving a Fall
    • Mechanical Energy
    • Conservation of Energy
    • Gravitational Potential Energy
  • 82. Powering the Body
    • Chemical Potential Energy
    • The Biological Energy Cascade
    • Elastic Potential Energy in the Body
    • Quantifying Elastic Potential Energy
    • Power
  • 83. Efficiency of the Human Body
    • The Energetic Functions of the Body[footnote]Significant content in this chapter was adapted from: OpenStax, College Physics. OpenStax CNX. Aug 30, 2019 http://cnx.org/contents/031da8d3-b525-429c-80cf-6c8ed997733a@17.22[/footnote]
    • The First Law of Thermodynamics
    • Body Efficiency
    • Food Calories
    • Conservation of Mass and of Energy
    • General Efficiency
  • 84. Weightlessness*
    • Uniform Circular Motion
    • Centripetal Force and Acceleration
    • Weightlessness
  • 85. Comparing Work-Energy and Energy Conservation*
  • 86. Unit 9 Review
  • 87. Unit 9 Practice and Assessment
  • Part X. Unit 10: Body Heat and The Fight for Life
  • 88. Homeostasis, Hypothermia, and Heatstroke
    • Homeostatis
    • Thermal Injuries
  • 89. Measuring Body Temperature
    • Liquid Thermometers
    • Bimetallic Strips
    • Linear Thermal Expansion
    • Temperature Units
  • 90. Preventing Hypothermia
    • Hypothermia
    • Preventing Hypothermia
  • 91. Cotton Kills
    • Conduction
    • Conduction Equation
    • Insulation Technology
  • 92. Wind-Chill Factor
    • Forced Convection
    • Natural Convection
    • Wind Power
  • 93. Space Blankets
    • Thermal Radiation
    • Stephan-Boltzmann Law
    • Net Thermal Radiation Rate
  • 94. Thermal Radiation Spectra
    • The Electromagnetic Spectrum
    • Black Body Radiation
    • Dangerously Hot Cars
    • The Greenhouse Gas Effect
  • 95. Cold Weather Survival Time
    • Human Heat Capacity
    • Rates of Body Temperature Change
  • 96. Preventing Hyperthermia
    • Sweating
    • Heat Index
    • Boiling and The Bends
    • Latent Heats
  • 97. Heat Death
    • The Second Law of Thermodynamics Revisited
    • Entropy
    • Maximum Efficiency
    • Heat Death
  • 98. Unit 10 Review
  • 99. Unit 10 Practice and Assessment Exercises
  • Part XI. Laboratory Activities
  • 100. Unit 2/3 Lab: Testing a Terminal Speed Hypothesis
  • 101. Unit 4 Lab: Hydrostatic Weighing
  • 102. Unit 5 Lab: Friction Forces and Equilibrium
  • 103. Unit 6 Lab: Elastic Modulus and Ultimate Strength
  • 104. Unit 7 Lab: Accelerated Motion
    • Accelerated Motion
  • 105. Unit 8 Lab: Collisions
  • 106. Unit 9 Lab: Energy in Explosions
  • 107. Unit 10 Lab: Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
  • Part XII. Design-Build-Test Projects
  • 108. Scale Biophysical Dead-lift Model
    • Project Goals
    • Project Description
    • Project Assessment and Grading
    • Additional Information to Consider
  • 109. Biophysical Model of the Arm
    • Project Goals
    • Project Description
  • 110. Mars Lander
    • Project Goals
    • Project Description
    • Guide Calculations:
    • Testing
  • Oregon Community College Association 2018 Meeting
    • Creating an OER physics textbook from a student-centered reference frame
    • Thank you
  • Cascadia OER Summit 2019
    • Student Centered Design Components in Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism
    • Thank you
  • Physics from the Student Perspective
    • Project Description
    • Timeline
    • Project Grading
  • Glossary

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