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Recommendations and guidelines from the 2014 NSF-supported IPLS Conference, attended by more than 150 faculty members

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Eric Brewe

Juan Burciaga

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Connect exponential equation to cooling, chemical reactions, metabolic rates and filtration rates

Thermoregulation, Renal/Urinary, Metabolism

Heat Transfer, RC Circuits

Dawn Meredith

Christopher Shubert

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Forces are used to investigate how centrifugation and sedimentation can characterize small particles.

Pressure & Fluid Diagnostics

Velocity, 2D Acceleration, Force & Acceleration, Density and Buoyancy

Dawn Meredith

Problems that highlight the challenges of being at the right temperature

Thermoregulation

Temperature, Heat Transfer, Heat Capacity, Latent Heat

Dawn Meredith

Gulls use exchangers to save energy with warm cores and cold feet. Fish gills operate analogously

Physical Mechanisms, Surface Area/volume, Thermoregulation

Heat Transfer

Dawn Meredith

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