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Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-102).

Basic concepts: numbers, units and consistency checks -- Introduction -- Numbers and significant figures -- Scientific notation -- Accuracy and precision -- Significant figures in calculations -- Dimensions and units -- SI units -- Keeping track of units in equations -- English and other units -- Conversion factors -- The use of weight to describe mass -- Consistency checks -- Reality check -- Units check -- Ranging check -- Organization of the remaining chapters -- Problems -- Darcy's law: pressure-driven transport through membranes -- Introduction, biological and man-made membranes -- Man-made membranes -- Darcy's law -- Ideal and nonideal materials -- Mechanical filtration (sieving) -- Problems -- Poiseuille's law: pressure-driven flow through tubes -- Introduction, biological transport -- Poiseuille's law -- Simplified version of Poiseuille's law -- Assumptions for Poiseuille's law -- Power expended in the flow -- Series and parallel combinations of resistive elements -- Series -- Parallel -- Problems -- Hooke's law: elasticity of tissues and compliant vessels -- Introduction -- The action of forces to deform tissue -- Hooke's law and elastic tissues -- Compliant vessels -- Incompressible flow of compliant vessels -- Problems -- Starling's law of the heart, Windkessel elements and conservation of volume -- Introduction, compliance of the ventricles -- Pressure-volume plots: the pv loop -- Starling's law of the heart -- Windkessel elements -- Conservation of volume in incompressible fluids -- Problems -- Euler's method and first-order time constants -- Introduction, differential equations -- Euler's method -- Waveforms of pressure and volume -- First-order time constants -- Problems -- Muscle, leverage,work, energy and power -- Introduction, muscle -- Levers and moments -- Work -- Energy -- Power -- Power in fluid flow -- Problems -- A: conversion factors -- B: material constants -- B.1: viscosity -- B.2: density and specific gravity -- B.3: permeability -- B.4: Young's modulus and ultimate stress -- Bibliography.

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Intended as an introduction to the field of biomedical engineering, this book covers the topics of biomechanics (Part I) and bioelectricity (Part II). Each chapter emphasizes a fundamental principle or law, such as Darcy's Law, Poiseuille's Law, Hooke's Law, Starling's law, levers and work in the area of fluid, solid, and cardiovascular biomechanics. In addition, electrical laws and analysis tools are introduced, including Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, Coulomb's Law, capacitors and the fluid/electrical analogy. Culminating the electrical portion are chapters covering Nernst and membrane potentials and Fourier transforms. Examples are solved throughout the book and problems with answers are given at the end of each chapter. A semester-long Major Project that models the human systemic cardiovascular system, utilizing both a Matlab numerical simulation and an electrical analog circuit, ties many of the book's concepts together.

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