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Living Physics Portal CourseSource working group Spring 2025

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Start Date:  January 30, 2025 End Date:  May 8, 2025
Participants will contribute to the Living Physics Portal and write an article for peer-reviewed publication in CourseSource.

Have you developed new research-based teaching activities and/or lessons for physics for life science students? Are you interested in working with a group of peers to contribute your lesson to the Living Physics Portal Vetted Library and and prepare your Lesson manuscript for submission to the journal CourseSource? The Living Physics Portal is partnering with CourseSource to offer a semester-long working group! Apply now to join us for the Spring 2025 Living Physics Portal CourseSource working group.

GROUP PRODUCTS

Online Open Textbook for IPLS II - What is an Electron, What is Light

Video, Pre-class assignment, Homework, Student reading

An open textbook designed for a flipped IPLS II course with very large (>500) enrollment and integrated, computer graded, homework.

Neuron Triggering, Synapse Structure/Function, Chemical Energy Conversion, Chemical Energy Storage, Optometry, Radiographic Imaging, Animal Vision Adaptations

Elementary Particles, Biophysics, Charge, Coulomb's Law, Conductors and Insulators, Induced Charge, Multipoles, Electric Field, Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy, Electrostatic Force, Capacitors, Dielectric, Resistance Characteristics, Conduction in Solutions, Cells and Batteries, Ohm's Law, Power and Energy, Circuit Analysis, RC Circuits, Currents, Magnets, Magnetic Fields, Fields and Currents, Force on Moving Charges, Force on Wires, Electromagnetic Spectrum, Speed of Light, Straight Line Propagation, Reflection - Flat Surfaces, Reflection - Curved Surfaces, Refractive Index, Refraction - Flat Surfaces, Total Internal Reflection, Thin Lens, Pinhole, Photons, Spectra, Absorption, Ionization Potential, Electron Properties, Atomic Models

Vetted

Brokk Toggerson

Reynolds Number and Motion in Viscous Fluids

Demonstration, Video, In-class activity, Homework, Instructor supplement, Restricted access

A Tutorial-style instructional worksheet and demo video on Reynolds Number and the biology and physics of moving in viscous fluids.

Natural Selection, Physical Mechanisms, Locomotion and Gait, Natural Selection and Adaptation, Abiotic Factors

Viscosity, Turbulent and Streamline Flow

Vetted

Brandon Lunk

Jessica Hobbs

1-D Motion in the Human Body - Biomedically Relevant Introductory Physics (BMP)

Instructor supplement, Restricted access, In-class activity, Video, Pre-class assignment, Homework, Student reading, Lecture materials, Exam problem

Engage your students in this first chapter of an active learning, fully ADAPTABLE, biomedically relevant introductory physics curriculum.

Biomechanical, Physical Therapy, Exercise Science, Locomotion and Gait, Kinesiology, Exercise Biomechanics, Biomechanics of Daily Activities

Position & Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Gravitational Acceleration, Moving Reference Frames

Vetted
+ 2

Nancy Donaldson

Mayuri Gilhooly

+ 2 more

Circular and Rotational Motion Applied to the Human Body TEXT (BMP)

Instructor supplement, Restricted access, Lecture materials, Video, Pre-class assignment, In-class activity, Student reading

Help your students "process" with this Active Learning Biomedically Relevant Physics TEXT on Circular & Rotational Motion in the Human Body

Pressure & Fluid Diagnostics, Locomotion and Gait, Biomechanics of Daily Activities

Position & Displacement, Center of Mass, Central Forces, Inertia in Motion, Force & Acceleration, Interacting Objects, Action/Reaction, Center of Gravity

Vetted
+ 2

Nancy Donaldson

Mayuri Gilhooly

+ 2 more

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Participants will contribute to the Living Physics Portal and write an article for peer-reviewed publication in CourseSource.