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What is mass?

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The amount of matter in an object

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What is weight?

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The attractive force of Earth’s gravity.

Gravitational force exerted on an object

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What is velocity?

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It’s a vector value.
Displacement or change in position.
It can be zero if return to starting point.

Velocity = displacement/time

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What is speed?

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It’s a scaler value.
Involves distance or total length of travel.
It’s always positive

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What are scaler quanties?

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Magnitude only
Additive
Examples are distance height weight and age

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What are vector quantities?

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Measure magnitude and direction

Can be additive

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What is acceleration?

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It’s a vector
Describes how velocity changes with time
It’s measured in m/s squared
How velocity (m/s) changes with each second

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What is force?

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It’s a push or pull
Newton’s second law
F=ma
Increased force equals increased acceleration

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What is gravity?

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The universal attraction between an object by a larger object.
G=9.8 m/s2

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What is pressure?

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Force per unit area.
P= force/area

  • increases: either increase applied force or decrease area force is applied.
  • decreases:Either decrease applied force or increase area force is applied

Example: popping a balloon with either your finger or a pin
**syringe: 1cm vs 2cm Doubling the diameter decreases pressure by factor of four

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What is atmospheric pressure?

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The weight of air above us. 5.79 quadrillion tons
-1 atmosphere = 760mmHg = 14psi

AKA: Barometric pressure

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What is a barometer?

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It measures atmospheric pressure.

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What is a manometer.

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An instrument for measuring the pressure acting on a column of fluid, especially one with the U-shaped tube of liquid in which a difference in the pressure acting in the two arms of the two causes the liquid to reach different heights in the 2 arms

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What is an aneroid bellow gauge?

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Do not require the presence of liquid.

Relies on the expansion or contraction of Bellows as the pressure changes.

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What is a bourdon gauge?

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Used with gas cylinders
Have a coiled tube coupled to a pointer.
Used to measure the pressure difference between the pressure exerted by the gas in a cylinder in the atmospheric pressure.

  • effected by changes in atmospheric pressure
  • total pressure = tank + atm
  • The pressure inside an empty cylinder is equal to the atmospheric pressure
  • In mountains there is less atmospheric pressure
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What is work?

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Work= force x displacement

  • zero force equals zero work
  • Zero displacement equals zero work
  • Measured in joules
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What is kinetic energy?

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Energy in motion

The energy and mass has by virtue of being in motion

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How does gas relate to work?

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Gases that move equal work

  • Breathing is work.
  • The amount of work done by a gas is path dependent
  • if there was no change in volume there was no work
  • work = pressure x change in volume
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What is energy?

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The capacity to do work.

Measured in joules

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What is a calorie?

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The amount of energy to increase 1gm of water 1 degree C

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What is potential energy?

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Energy with is stored by virtue of its position

-airplane, battery, food

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What is internal energy?

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Source of kinetic energy plus potential energy of a system stored (molecular level)

-example: gas in a cylinder-moving molecules. Inside and compressed volume if released

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What are thermodynamics?

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The study of energy and how it’s interconverted

Temp A=B, B=C, A=C

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What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?

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Change in internal energy of a system is = to the sum of the heat process that cause energy to flow in and out of a system and work done.

energy can neither be created nor destroyed

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What does endothermic mean?
Energy flows into system
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What does exothermic mean?
Energy flows out of a system
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What is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?
Heat flows from hot to cold when 2 bodies brought in thermal contact.
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What is the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics?
Can’t lower a temp of an object to absolute zero.
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What is heat vs temperature?
Heat is energy transferred as a result of different temps between objects. Temp is an arbitrary ranking of “hotness” or “coldness” Example: heat house, use energy to increase temp.
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What is specific heat?
The heat required to raise the temperature of 1gm of a substance by one degree C - insulators: have a high specific heat - conductors: have a low specific heat
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What is heat capacity?
The ratio between the amount of heat added or removed from an object to change temp.
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What is power?
The rate of doing work or the rate of energy expenditure - measured in watts (watt = joules/second) - P = F x V (average power = force involved and speed)
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What causes a fluid to flow?
Gravity and pressure differences
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What states of matter assume the shape of their contianer?
Liquids and gases
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How do you determine an object’s density?
Mass divided by volume
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What is specific gravity?
The relationship between an objects density and the density of water
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What is Pascal’s Principle?
Confined fluids at at given pressure——> increase pressure——> applied change to every point in fluid **arterial line**
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What are hydrometers?
Uses to measure the density of a fluid. Increased density = increased float level
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What are hydrodynamics?
The study of fluids in motion -2 useful properties are density and pressure
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What is laminar flow?
- Smooth and orderly, unchanging pattern. - Adjacent lawyers flow over. - slow at edge, fast in the middle.
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What is turbulent flow?
- not smooth - continuously varying pattern of flow - chaotic and changing
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What is flow rate?
Volume passing a particular point /unit of time (L/min) *smaller diameter: flow faster to keep same volume moving - flow faster via a smaller tube
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What is Bernoulli’s Equation?
- As speed of a fluid goes up, pressure exerted by the fluid goes down. - depends on speed and density of fluid. **example: Venturi flowmeter. Used to measure fluid speed in pipes V2>V1=P2
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What is viscosity?
- A measure of a fluids resistance to flow - increase viscosity = decrease flow - decrease viscosity = increase flow
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What is flow of liquid dependent on?
The pressure difference over the length of pipe -to maintain flow, difference in pressure is proportional to pipe length, average speed of fluid, and inversely proportional to cross-sectional area
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What is Poisueilles Equation?
- increase radius on the tube can increase flow - short needle will increase flow - increase IV height = increase pressure difference = increase flow - increase viscosity will decrease flow Flow rate=V/T - flow is directly proportional to 4th power of radius - double radius = increase flow 16x - triple radius = increase flow 81x - increase pressure differences = increased flow - length of tube increased = decreased flow - increase viscosity = decreased flow * ****change of radius has most dramatic effect on flow**** *for laminar flow only
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What are some factors that cause flow to be turbulent?
- velocity increases - tube wall rough - kinks/bends >25 degrees - flows through orifice - density determines flow *resistance to flow increases as flow becomes turbulent
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What is Reynold’s Number?
* predicts turbulent flow - 1500 - 2000 flow changes from laminar to turbulent - directly proportional to velocity, density, and diameter - inversely proportional to viscosity
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Describe properties of gases
- have neither shape nor volume - expands to fill space available - no intermolecular forces between gas particles
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What states of matter have the ability to flow?
Gases and liquids
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What are intermolecular forces?
Determine how molecules interact with each other——> determined by chemical bonds and holds atoms into molecules - determine microscopic properties - all molecules, atoms, ions have inherent attraction as long as they don’t get too close
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What is the electrostatic octet rule?
Every atoms tends to add/remove or share electors to end up with 8 valance electrons Metals: release electrons easily: conductors/cations Non-metals: attract anions
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Solubility rule
*like dissolves like Ex: Polar compounds dissolve more easily in other polar compounds Ex: non-polar - oxygen poorly soluble in blood/water -most organic compounds are hydrogen + carbon = hydrocarbons = non-polar -a majority of organic compounds are not very soluble in water
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What are polar compounds?
2 atoms of different electronegativity are bound together. The bond is polar. Water is polar -polar molecules stick together and prevent non polar species from entering cell wall
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What is surface tension?
- intermolecular forces - in liquid state are attracted to neighbors by intermolecular forces - H2O has a high surface tension = increase cohesion liquid - increase tendency of lungs to collapse in premature infants
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What is LaPlace’s Law?
Explains why the surface tension on a blood vessel wall depends on the radius of the vessel - wall tension is proportional to the radius of the vessel - ex: if pressure same, larger vessel has greater wall tension than smaller - aneurysms: spherical - changes Equation to R/2 so attempt to decrease wall tension
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What is surfactant?
Surface acting agent reduces surface tension -has polar (hydrophilic) and non-polar (hydrophobic) ends - attracts and pulls away
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What is viscosity?
A measure of a fluids resistance to flow | -increase molecular forces
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What is vapor pressure?
The pressure of a vapor in equilibrium with its liquid or solid state. - increases with temperature increase: indications of liquid’s evaporation rate - increased temp = increased vapor pressure of liquid with increase volatility = tendencies of liquid to evaporate
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What is heat of vaporization?
The amount of energy to liberate 1 mole of liquid at its boiling point into a gas phase
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What is boiling point?
Temperature at which vapor pressure is = ambient pressure -depends on pressure. Increase ambient pressure = increase boiling point = pressure cooker -bubbles deep in liquid = increase pressure secondary to increase temp
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What is heat?
Increase kinetic energy, increase energy to overcome intermolecular forces. Vaporization occurs as the molecules escape from liquid state into gas state
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What is melting point?
Solid reversibly passes into liquid state. Opposite of freezing point. -ionic bonds = strong = increase melting point—usually solid at room temperature
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What is evaporation?
Has cooling effect. | -vaporization is endothermic (heat added) caused decrease temp - absorb heat from surrounding
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What is condensation?
Releases energy | -heating effect—-> steam releases heat to convert back to liquids = steam burns - cooling of skin temp

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