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Contents
- Dedication
- Why Use Body Physics?
- When to use Body Physics
- How to use Body Physics
- Tasks Remaining and Coming Improvements
- 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
- 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
- 12. Scientific Models
- 13. Measuring Heart Rate
- 14. Heart Beats Per Lifetime
- 15. Human Dimensions
- 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
- 21. The Skinfold Method
- 22. Pupillary Distance Self-Measurement
- 23. Working with Uncertainties
- 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
- 28. Body Volume by Displacement
- 29. Body Weight
- 30. Measuring Body Weight
- 31. Body Density from Displacement and Weight
- 32. Under Water Weight
- 33. Hydrostatic Weighing
- 34. Unit 4 Review
- 35. Unit 4 Practice and Assessment
- Part V. Unit 5: Maintaining Balance
- 36. Balance
- 37. Center of Gravity
- 38. Supporting the Body
- 39. Slipping
- 40. Friction in Joints
- 41. Tipping
- 42. Human Stability
- 43. Tripping
- 44. Types of Stability
- 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
- 49. Forces in the Elbow Joint
- 50. Ultimate Strength of the Human Femur
- 51. Elasticity of the Body
- 52. Deformation of Tissues
- 53. Brittle Bones
- 54. Equilibrium Torque and Tension in the Bicep*
- 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
- 59. Drag Forces on the Body
- 60. Physical Model for Terminal Velocity
- 61. Analyzing Motion
- 62. Accelerated Motion
- 63. Accelerating the Body
- 64. Graphing Motion
- 65. Quantitative Motion Analysis
- 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
- 71. Locomotion
- 72. Locomotion Injuries
- 73. Collisions
- 74. Explosions, Jets, and Rockets
- 75. Safety Technology
- 76. Crumple Zones
- 77. Unit 8 Review
- 78. Unit 8 Practice and Assessment
- Part IX. Unit 9: Powering the Body
- 79. Doing Work
- 80. Jumping
- 81. Surviving a Fall
- 82. Powering the Body
- 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*
- 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
- 89. Measuring Body Temperature
- 90. Preventing Hypothermia
- 91. Cotton Kills
- 92. Wind-Chill Factor
- 93. Space Blankets
- 94. Thermal Radiation Spectra
- 95. Cold Weather Survival Time
- 96. Preventing Hyperthermia
- 97. 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
- 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
- 109. Biophysical Model of the Arm
- 110. Mars Lander
- Oregon Community College Association 2018 Meeting
- Cascadia OER Summit 2019
- Physics from the Student Perspective
- Glossary
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