10. Blood and Respiratory Media

module 10
week 11
blood
respiratory media
aquatic
terrestrial
aerial
Now we get to move it move it!
Author
Affiliation

School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii

Published

November 5, 2024

Pre-class materials

Read ahead

Before class, you can prepare by reading the following materials:

  1. No Class on Tuesday – Election Day! - But to stay on track please be sure to watch the podcast and review [locomotion]
  2. Thursday we will move on to blood and respiratory media
  3. Lab this week is on [toad muscle]! Pay attention to refining your prelab.
  4. Think hard about a hypothesis for your independent toad muscle lab next week.

Announcements/Reminders

  • Due Friday Homework 5 via Laulima [schedule]. You should be able to complete all of the questions except the last one. Because of the holiday, we will talk about that a bit on Thursday.
  • Do discussion TEAMMATES eval, released each Thursday, due by Monday.
  • Getting to the end, folks!

Week 11 Discussion Groups

Group Partner 1 Partner 2 Partner 3
1 James Abby Ilan
2 Christian Kylee Veronica
3 Ashton Mohamad Vivian
4 Hao Adam Sean

Tuesday is Election day

No Class - Please watch the podcast and review on your own. Iʻll talk briefly on this on Thursday.

  • Terrestrial Locomotion [discussion] [slide deck 2]
    • Cursorial adaptations
    • Trends in posture
    • Limb cycles and gaits (kinematics)
    • Ground reaction forces and joint forces (biomechanics)
    • Conservation of energy in running, walking jumping

Thursday

  • Blood and Respiratory Media [discussion] [slide deck] [slide deck2]
    • Hemoglobin and O2 delivery
    • Bohr effect
    • Air vs. Water as respiratory media
    • Diffusion vs. Bulk Flow

Coming up Next Week

  • Homework 6 Respiration Thursday 11/12 [schedule]
Reminders and materials