Health Academy Physics

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Health Academy Physics
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What is physics ?
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Mathematical explanations for how the world works

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Physics is important in the medical field, in
engineering, and helps develop your math skills!
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• Data provided by Association of American Medical
  Colleges and the Law School Admission Council
• Physics majors get the highest scores on the MCAT
  and LSAT (entry tests for admission into
  medical school law school)

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Motion

PALM connection effects of motion on your
body- respiration heart rate
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• Demos
• Constant speed walk
• Constant acceleration walk
• Walk the graph

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• Lab PASCO- spark learning systems
• heart rate monitors
• Lab Domino lab

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• Injuries
• shin splints
• runners knee
• stress fracture
• muscle pull
• ankle sprain

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• founder

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Projectile motion/ vectors
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PALM connection Physics of blood spatter
analysis
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Newtons Laws
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G forces
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PALM connection- why air bags work effects of G
forces on the body zero gravity therapy
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Forces on the body in a safety harness
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Forces
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• PALM connection
• blunt force injuries
• blood pressure

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Work Energy
PALM connection physics of joints
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Kinetic potential energy
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• Edible car competition

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Momentum Collisions
PALM connection injuries resulting from a car
crash (leading cause of TBI)
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• Article Headbanger Nation
• Time magazine Jan 31, 2011

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Heat/Thermodynamics

• PALM connections
• determining the calorie content of
  food
• preventing hypothermia
• preventing dehydration
• thermal imaging

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Electricity

• PALM connections
• Physics of lightning
• Results of electricity on the human body
• ECG artificial pacemaker defibrillator
• Action potentials

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Magnetism

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MRI Magnetic therapy
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Sound

• PALM connections How the ear works
• Ultrasound
  technology

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20 week old female fetus
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Light

• PALM connections How the eye works
• Uses of light
  therapy LASIK

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Project

• Choose a health related career
• Description of career
• Interview
• Education required
• how Physics is related to it

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Orthopedic surgeon
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