Physics in Action

Use the following activity to think about how physics relate to Health Sciences.

To Do

1. Read

Diller K. R. (2015). Heat Transfer in Health and Healing. Journal of heat transfer, 137(10), 1030011–10300112. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4030424

2. What is the purpose of this paper?
3. In your notebook, write down three applications related to heat transfer in health and healing that were new to you.
4. List physics terms necessary to understand the ideas that you wrote down.

 YouTube videos with physics demonstrations and experiments

Hand Boiler Demo

Web Resources

CCOHS. (2022). Hot environments – health effects and first aid. Government of Canada. https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/phys_agents/heat_health.html

Alberta. (2022). Cold exposure: Ways the body loses heat. MyHealth.Alberta.ca. https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Health/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=tw9037&

Shitzer, A., & Eberhart, R.C. (Eds.). (1985). Heat transfer in medicine and biology. [PDF file] Plenium Press. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-1-4684-8285-0%2F1.pdf

How to solve basic calorimetry problems. (2017, September 21). The Organic Chemistry tutor. [ Youtube video].

21st Century Skills

Practicing Your 4 C skills

4 C Skills:

• Critical thinking;
• Communication;
• Collaboration;
• Creativity.

Task:

1. How would you define each of these skills: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity?
2. Read more about these 4 C skills. https://express.adobe.com/page/WrM8d/
3. Why do we need to learn and practice these skills?