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Living Physics textbook - AKA NEXUS Physics Wikibook

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an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

Biochemistry, Mechanics of Biomaterials, Fluid Transport, Material Flow, Cardiovascular System, Neurophysiology, Healthy Respiratory Function, Cellular Structure, Emergent Phenomena, Bioenergetics

Fluid Mechanics, Motion in Two Dimensions, Electrostatics, Electric Fields and Potential, Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Geometrical Optics, Diffraction, Interference, Oscillations, Wave Motion, Thermal Properties of Matter, First Law, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Photons, Lasers, Random Walks

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Edward Redish

Ginny Redish

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Living Physics - Vol. 1

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an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

Cellular Structure, Mechanics of Biomaterials, Material Flow, Cardiovascular System, Healthy Respiratory Function, Fluid Transport, Biochemistry, Neurophysiology

Fluid Mechanics, Motion in Two Dimensions, Electrostatics, Thermal Properties of Matter

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Living Physics Vol. 1 - Information for faculty

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an intro physics text designed for life science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

None

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Living Physics 1 - Introduction for students

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the introductory chapter for a physics text designed for life science students focusing on the skills they need to develop

None

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Living Physics 2 - Using math in science

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chapter 2 of an intro physics text designed for life science students focusing on the tools for using math in physics

None

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Living Physics 3 - Kinematics

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chapter 3 of an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the basics ideas of kinematics

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Position & Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Position & Displacement, 2D Velocity, 2D Acceleration

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Living Physics 4 - Newtons laws

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chapter 4 of an intro physics text designed for life-science students introducing Newton's laws of motion

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Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Applications of Newton's Laws

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Living Physics 5 - Modeling forces

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chapter 5 of an intro physics text designed for life-science students introducing models of various forces for use in Newton's laws

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Gravity, Friction, Viscosity, Charge, Coulomb's Law

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Living Physics 6 - Coherent vs random motion

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chapter 6 of an intro physics text for life-science students defining momentum and contrasting it with random models of motion and diffusion

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Force & Acceleration, Kinetic Theory, Mean Free Path, Mean Collision Time, Diffusion

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Living Physics 7 - Solids

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chapter 7 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing states of matter and the response of solids to various forces

Musculoskeletal Injury/Disorders, Cellular Structure, Mechanics of Biomaterials

Statics of Rigid Bodies

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Living Physics 8 - Fluids

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chapter 8 of an intro physics text for life-science students on the properties of fluids including viscous fluid flow

Material Flow, Cardiovascular System, Healthy Respiratory Function, Fluid Transport

Surface Tension, Statics of Fluids, Flow Rate, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity, Equation of Continuity

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Living Physics 9 - Mechanical energy

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chapter 9 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the quantification of the concept of energy, kinetic and potential

Biochemistry, Neurophysiology

Work, Non-Conservative Forces, Conservation of Energy, Conservative Fields

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Living Physics 10 - Chemical energy

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chapter 10 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing chemical energetics from a physics point of view with simple models

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Medical Physics, Conservation of Energy, Spectra

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Living Physics 11 - Heat and temperature

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chapter 11 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing macroscopic thermodynamics - heat and temperature

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Thermal Properties of Matter

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Living Physics - Vol. 2

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an intro physics text designed for life-science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or healthcare careers

Emergent Phenomena, Bioenergetics, Cellular Structure

Electric Fields and Potential, Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Geometrical Optics, Diffraction, Interference, Oscillations, Wave Motion, First Law, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Photons, Lasers, Random Walks

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Living Physics Vol. 2 - Information for faculty

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an intro physics text designed for life science students focusing on the skills they need to develop for research or health-care careers

None

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Living Physics 12 - Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

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chapter 12 of an intro physics text for life-science students discussing thermodynamics from the point of view of statistical mechanics

Matter/energy Transfer & Transforms, Bioenergetics, Cellular Dynamics

First Law, Probability, Kinetic Theory, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Random Walks, Microstate, Macrostate, Boltzmann Distribution, Equipartition Theorem, Ideal Gas

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Living Physics 13 - Electricity and the electric field

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chapter 13 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts of electric field and potential

Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurophysiology

Electric Field, Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy, Dielectric

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Living Physics 14 - Electric currents

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chapter 14 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts of electric currents

Neurophysiology

Resistance, Ohm's Law, Power and Energy, Circuit Analysis, Currents

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Living Physics 15 - Oscillations

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chapter 15 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts of oscillations

Locomotion and Gait, Healthy Hearing

Pendula, Springs and Oscillators, Hooke's Law, Simple Harmonic Motion, Damped Oscillators, Driven Mechanical Resonance

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Living Physics 16 - Waves in 1D

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chapter 16 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the basic concepts and mathematics of wave motion in 1D

None

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Living Physics 17 - Light — the ray model

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chapter 17 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing three models of light and describing the ray model in detail

Vision, Optometry

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Living Physics 18 - Light — the wave model

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chapter 18 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the wave model of light and including diffraction from 2 slits

Molecular Imaging, DNA and RNA, Cellular Structure

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Living Physics 19 - Light — the photon model

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chapter 19 of an intro physics text for life-science students introducing the photon model of light and including many useful applications

Biomedical Imaging, Surgery

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Clicker questions for Living Physics

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None

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Clicker questions for Living Physics vol 1

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A set of short-answer clicker questions for use in the 1st half of an algebra-based IPLS class.

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Motion in One Dimension, Motion in Two Dimensions, Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Applications of Newton's Laws, Gravity, Work and Energy, Linear Momentum, Surface Tension, Thermal Properties of Matter, First Law, Archimedes' Principle, Static Pressure, Measuring Pressure, Density and Buoyancy, Flow Rate, Bernoulli's Principle, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity, Charge, Coulomb's Law, Induced Charge, Equation of Continuity

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Clicker questions for Living Physics vol 2

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A set of short-answer clicker questions for use in the 2nd half of an algebra-based IPLS class

Optical Imaging, Temperature Diagnostics, Vision, Hearing, Healthy Neural Function

Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Geometrical Optics, Diffraction, Color, First Law, Kinetic Theory, Diffusion, Entropy, Second Law Formulations, Thermodynamic Potentials, Electric Field, Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy, Interference From Two Sources, Photons

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NEXUS Physics Wikibook - old version

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A free set of readings for a one year IPLS course. Available as a free website.

Cross-cutting Biological Concepts

Motion in One Dimension, Motion in Two Dimensions, Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Applications of Newton's Laws, Work and Energy, Linear Momentum, Electrostatics, Electric Fields and Potential, Capacitance, Resistance, DC Circuits, Surface Tension, Statics of Fluids, Geometrical Optics, Interference, Oscillations, Wave Motion, Second and Third Law, Probability, Ensembles, Diffusion

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Light Problems - The Photon Model of Light

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A collection of 4 problems on the photon model of light, designed to help life-science students build scientific thinking skills.

Proteins, Molecular Imaging

Atomic Physics, Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Spectra, Absorption

Edward Redish

NEXUS Physics

Photons in biology

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Answering questions about light frequencies in jellyfish and xray lines emitted from tungsten

Proteins

Synthesis and Analysis of Color, Spectra, Absorption

Edward Redish

NEXUS Physics

Photon transitions

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Answering questions about energy level transitions of an atom

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Atomic Physics, Absorption

Edward Redish

NEXUS Physics

Fluorescence examples

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Finding the change in energy of light due to fluorescence

Proteins, Molecular Imaging

Synthesis and Analysis of Color

Edward Redish

NEXUS Physics

Flame test

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Finding the number of atoms in the first excited state of sodium

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Atomic Physics, Spectra

Edward Redish

NEXUS Physics

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