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Why Use Body Physics?
When to use Body Physics
How to use Body Physics
Tasks Remaining and Coming Improvements
Who Created Body Physics?
Dedication
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
10. Jolene's Migraines
11. The Scientific Process
12. Scientific Models
13. Measuring Heart Rate
14. Dosage Calculations
15. Human Dimensions
16. Body Surface Area
17. Heart Beats Per Lifetime
18. Unit 2 Review
19. Unit 2 Practice and Assessment
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
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. Body Density from Hydrostatic Weighing
35. Unit 4 Review
36. Unit 4 Practice and Assessment
37. Balance
38. Center of Gravity
39. Supporting the Body
40. Slipping
41. Friction in Joints
42. Tipping
43. Human Stability
44. Tripping
45. Types of Stability
46. The Anti-Gravity Lean
47. Unit 5 Review
48. Unit 5 Practice and Assessment
49. Body Levers
50. Forces in the Elbow Joint
51. Ultimate Strength of the Human Femur
52. Elasticity of the Body
53. Deformation of Tissues
54. Brittle Bones
55. Equilibrium Torque and Tension in the Bicep*
56. Alternative Method for Calculating Torque and Tension*
57. Unit 6 Review
58. Unit 6 Practice and Assessment
59. Falling
60. Drag Forces on the Body
61. Physical Model for Terminal Velocity
62. Analyzing Motion
63. Accelerated Motion
64. Accelerating the Body
65. Graphing Motion
66. Quantitative Motion Analysis
67. Falling Injuries
68. Numerical Simulation of Skydiving Motion*
69. Unit 7 Review
70. Unit 7 Practice and Assessment
71. Overcoming Inertia
72. Locomotion
73. Locomotion Injuries
74. Collisions
75. Explosions, Jets, and Rockets
76. Safety Technology
77. Crumple Zones
78. Unit 8 Review
79. Unit 8 Practice and Assessment
80. Doing Work
81. Jumping
82. Surviving a Fall
83. Powering the Body
84. Efficiency of the Human Body
85. Weightlessness*
86. Comparing Work-Energy and Energy Conservation*
87. Unit 9 Review
88. Unit 9 Practice and Assessment
89. Homeostasis, Hypothermia, and Heatstroke
90. Measuring Body Temperature
91. Preventing Hypothermia
92. Cotton Kills
93. Wind-Chill Factor
94. Space Blankets
95. Thermal Radiation Spectra
96. Cold Weather Survival Time
97. Preventing Hyperthermia
98. Heat Death
99. Unit 10 Review
100. Unit 10 Practice and Assessment Exercises
101. Lab 2/3 Human Walking Speed (Distance Learning Compatible)
102. Unit 4 Lab: Hydrostatic Weighing (Distance Learning Compatible)
103. Unit 5 Lab: Tipping (Distance Learning Compatible)
104. Lab 6: Modeling Tendon Elasticity (Distance Learning Compatible)
105. Unit 7 Lab: Free-Falling and Reaction Time (Distance Learning Compatible)
106. Unit 1 Lab: Pre-test and Preparation
107. Unit 2/3 Lab: Testing a Terminal Speed Hypothesis
108. Unit 4 Lab: Hydrostatic Weighing
109. Unit 5 Lab: Friction Forces and Equilibrium
110. Unit 6 Lab: Elastic Modulus and Ultimate Strength
111. Unit 7 Lab: Accelerated Motion
112. Unit 8 Lab: Collisions
113. Unit 9 Lab: Energy in Explosions
114. Unit 10 Lab: Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
115. Scale Biophysical Dead-lift Model
116. Biophysical Model of the Arm
117. Mars Lander
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