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Highlights: This curriculum uses videos, text, and assessment questions to explore the physics concepts behind body composition analysis.

Abstract: Analyzing body composition can help to provide valuable information about a person’s overall current health as well as how that changes over time. This curriculum provides context for the following concepts: buoyancy, free body diagrams, universal gas law, AC circuits, impedance, x-rays, photons, underwater weighing, DEXA, BIA, calorimetry, air displacement, and plethysmography. The curriculum includes a manuscript with key concepts, video series from a medical professional, video comprehension questions, and pre-lecture checkpoints and homework problems.

Resource Types: Video, Pre-class assignment, Homework, Student reading, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

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Ellynne Kutschera

Portland State University

Priya Jamkhedkar

Portland State University

Ralf Widenhorn

Portland State University

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Physics Topics:

Classical Mechanics > Applications of Newton's Laws

Electricity & Magnetism > AC Circuits > General, Impedance, RLC Circuits - AC

Fluid Mechanics > Statics of Fluids > General, Archimedes' Principle, Density and Buoyancy

Optics > Modern Optics > Photons

Thermo & Stat Mech > First Law > Adiabatic Processes, Isothermal Processes

Life Sciences Topics:

Biomechanics > Biotribology

Human and Animal Physiology > Metabolism

Medical Applications > Biomedical Imaging > Nuclear Imaging, Optical Imaging, Radiographic Imaging

Medical Applications > Diagnostic (non-imaging) Techniques > Electrical Diagnostics, Physical Exam, Pressure & Fluid Diagnostics

Math Topics:

Algebra; Probability; Statistics

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