Sherif Mehanny, PhD

Basic units, dimensions, scientific notation - Record keeping - the role of a laboratory notebook - Darcy's law - pressure driven flow through a membrane - Poiselle's law - pressure driven flow through a tube or pipe - Hooke's Law - elasticity and stress/strain relationship - Starling's Law of the heart, windkessel elements, and conservation of mass/volume - Euler's method - first order time constants and numerical solution of differential equations in MATLAB - Equilibrium statics and dynamics - muscles, leverage, work, energy, power, force, levers, and moments - Ohm's law - current, voltage, and resistance - Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws - Operational amplifiers - Coulomb's law, capacitors, fluid/electrical analog - Series and parallel combinations of resistors and capacitors (RCs) - Thevenin equivalent circuits and first order RC time constants - Nernst potential, cell membrane equivalent circuit - Fourier transforms - AC current and frequency domain