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Lesson 1: Foundation 4: Physical and chemical principles- What is this passage set and how is it organized?
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- Translational motion: Swine flu in Finland
- Translational motion: The world's fastest mammal
- Translational motion: The ballistics of gene bombardment
- Translational motion: Concussions in professional athletes
- Translational motion: DNA motion in gel electrophoresis
- Translational motion: Ancient Greek catapults and medical packs
- Force and motion: Knee injuries in athletes
- Force and motion: Forces on a kidney stone
- Force and equilibrium: An elevator in a hospital
- Force and equilibrium: A ramp in an administrative office
- Force and equilibrium: Testing new suture material
- Force and equilibrium: Patients in a wheelchair
- Force and equilibrium: Frictionless pulley system
- Force and equilibrium: Hills, inclement weather, and cars
- Force and equilibrium: How do geckoes stick to surfaces?
- Force and equilibrium: Comparing stress exerted by different running shoes
- Force and equilibrium: Frictional forces on mobility walkers
- Work and energy: Basal metabolic rate and energy expenditure
- Work and energy: Rollercoasters are energy at work!
- Work and energy: Elasticity and kinetics of vulcanized rubber
- Mechanics of the human body: Standing balance
- Mechanics of the human body: The forearm as a third-class lever
- Mechanics of the human body: The physics of walking and running
- Mechanics of the human body: A physical model of human sitting
- Mechanics of the human body: Forces and torques acting on the hip joint
- Mechanics of the human body: Effects of microgravity on muscle tissues
- Mechanics of the human body: Tension in the muscles
- Fluid mechanics: A scale under water
- Fluid mechanics: Hydrotherapy and full body immersion
- Fluid mechanics: Flow and Poiseuille's law in operation
- Fluid mechanics: The tubular system in an aquarium
- Fluid dynamics and the circulatory system: Blood flow in arteries
- Fluid dynamics and the circulatory system: Leukocytes rolling on blood vessel walls
- Fluid dynamics and the circulatory system: Cardiac pressure-volume curves 1
- Fluid dynamics and the circulatory system: Cardiac pressure-volume curves 2
- Fluid dynamics and the circulatory system: Coronary heart disease and blood pressure
- Gases: Ideal gases in medicine
- Gases: Chlorofluorocarbons and the environment
- Gases: Charles' law and gas in a piston
- Gases: Heat engines and work
- Gases: Preventing barotrauma in deep-sea divers
- Gases: Pressure regulation and fluid dynamics of the respiratory system
- Gases: Fick's law and oxygen diffusion in salmon
- Electrostatics: Medicine and metal spheres
- Electrostatics: Electric field treatments and electroporation
- Circuit elements: Analyzing electrocardiogram voltage signals
- Circuit elements: The elements of a simple defibrillator
- Circuit elements: Capacitors in electrocardiography monitors
- Circuit elements: Electromyography and passive filters
- Circuit elements: Cardiac dysrhythmia and defibrillators
- Magnetism: Mass spectrometry in the operating room
- Magnetism: The effect of contrast agents on MRI signals
- Electrochemistry: Studying metabolism with galvanic cells
- Physics of nerve cells: Electrochemistry and circuit components of axons
- Physics of nerve cells: Neuronal membranes as nature's capacitors
- Physics of nerve cells: The speed of a neural impulse
- Sound: How movements influence an ultrasound
- Sound: Resonance in a tube
- Sound: Clinical applications of tuning forks
- Sound: Doppler effect in living tissue (ultrasound)
- Sound: The effects of ear canal acoustics on hearing ability
- Sound: Pure tone audiometry in diagnosing hearing loss
- Sound: Using ultrasounds to measure blood flow velocity
- Sound: The effects of ultrasound on different tissue types
- Electromagnetic radiation: Shortwave diathermy in rehabilitative medicine
- Light and optics: An experiment with light rays and a prism
- Light and optics: Using optical traps to manipulate DNA
- Light and optics: Looking skin deep with dermoscopy
- Light and optics: A mirror in an operating room
- Light and optics: Analysis of image production by the human eye
- The refraction of light through the human eye
- Light and optics: The physics of eyesight correction
- Light and optics: Converging and diverging lenses in a lab
- Light and optics: Hyperopia and convex lenses
- Light and optics: Eye disease and contact lenses
- Light and optics: Using scallops to correct vision
- Particles/radioactivity: Therapeutic radioisotopes
- Particles/radioactivity: Radioactive tracer Technetium-99
- Particles/radioactivity: Decay of iodine-131
- Particles/radioactivity: Technetium decay and its cardiac application
- Particles/radioactivity: Gamma knife radiosurgery
- Particles/radioactivity: Radionuclides for radiopharmaceuticals
- Particles/radioactivity: Muon tomography for medical imaging
- Particles/radioactivity: Particle accelerators for proton beam therapy
- Stoichiometry: Alcohol production and absorption
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