Physics + Math Flashcards
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What are 5 criteria for the FINER method?
- feasible
- interesting
- novel
- ethical
- relevant
What is the one difference between a positive and negative control?
Positive ensure change in dependent variable and negative ensure no change in dependent variable
What the three types of bias? Define
- Selection Bias: sample differs from the population
- Detection bias: educated professionals using their knowledge in an inconsistent way and search for an outcome disproportionately in cartain populations
- Hawthorne effect: changes in behavior of subjects when they are being observed
What are the 4 core ethical tenets in medicine?
- Beneficence: obligation to act in patient’s best interest
- Nonmaleficence: obligation to avoid treatments or interventions where the harm outweighs the potential benefits
- Autonomy: responsibility to respect patients; decisions and choices about their own healthcare
- Justice: responsibility to treat similar patients with similar care and distribute healthcare fairly
What are the three tenets of the Belmont Report?
- Respect for Persons: honesty between the subject and the researcher (informed consent)
- Justice: dictates which study questions are worth pursuing and which subjects to use (Morally relevant difference such as age)
- Beneficence: do the most good with the lead harm. Can’t perform an intervention without equipoise (treat both treatment as equal/not one superior)
What is the difference between statistics and parameters?
Sample data=statistics
Population data=parameters
What is the difference between internal and external validity?
External: refers to the ability to generalize study to population
Internal: the identification of causality between two variables in a study
What is the difference between accuracy (validity) and precision (reliability)?
- validity: ability of an instrument to measure a true value.
- reliability: ability of an instrument to read consistently
What does alpha mean in statistical tests? What does it mean for a p-value to be greater than alpha?
- alpha is the level of risk that we are willing to accept for incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis
- we fail to reject the null hypothesis
What is the difference betwen type II and type I error?
Type II error occurs when incorrectly fail to reject the null hypothesis (liklihood that we report no difference between two populations when there is one)
Type I error: liklihood that we report a difference when there is no actual difference
What is the difference between power and confidence?
Confidence is the probability of correctly failing to reject the null
Power is the probability of correctly rejecting the false null (1-beta)
What happens to the confidence interval if the confidence level increase
increases
What does a low power mean?
it is more difficult to get results that are statiscally significant
What is three difference between static and kinetic friction?
- Static friction is between stationary objects and surface when at rest and kinetic friction exists between a sliding object and surface
- coefficient of static friction is always larger than the coefficent of kinetic friction
- static friction can take on many values depending on the mag of applied force, kinetic friction is a constant value
What are Newton’s three laws?
- Inertia: body at rest stay at rest, body in motion stays in motion. No acceleration no net force. no force–> no acel/constant vel
- F=ma
- every action has an opposite and equal rxm
Equation for toque?
torque =rFsin(theta)
What is the universal gravitation equation?
Fg=(Gm1m2)/(r^2)
What is elastic potential energy? What is the equation?
When a spring is stretvhed or compressed from its equilibrium length
U=(1/2)kx2
What are two examples of conservative forces?
gravitational and electrostatic
What is the equation for Work?
W=Fdcos(theta)
What is the difference between an isovolumetic (isochoric) process and a isobaric process?
Both involve a piston (W=P(deltaV))
isovolumetic (isochoric) process–> volume is constant/no work
isobaric process–> pressure kept constant
How do you find mechanical energy? What is one key idea of mechanical energy?
- Delta E: Delta K + Delta U
- it is conserved at all points of process
(ex: will return to the same height when on a trampoline)
What does the zeroth law of thermodynamics state?
objects that are in contact and that are in thermal equilibrium (no net exchange of heat) if they are at the same temp
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
- deltaU=q-w


