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Ideal Gas Law
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Highlights: Fluids are essential to life for transportation of food, waste, signals, organisms and propagules.
Abstract: In this tutorials, students build a mechanistic understanding of pressure in ideal gases which they can then apply to biological situations. Beginning with this relatively simple situation prepares students to understand the more difficult topics of fluid flow and viscosity mechanistically as well.
Resource Types: In-class activity, Instructor supplement, Restricted access
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Fluid Mechanics > Statics of Fluids > Static Pressure

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Cross-cutting Biological Concepts > Causal Mechanisms > Physical Mechanisms

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Copyright:   2022 Dawn Meredith, Daniel Young

License:   CC: BY-NC-SA - Attribution, No Commercial uses and Share Alike. Derivative works must have the same license

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