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Open Stax: Extended Topic : The Four Basic Forces an Introduction
In the following interactive students will begin to understand the four basic forces that underlie the processes in nature.
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Open Stax: College Physics: Drag Forces
In the following tutorial, students will learn how to express mathematically the drag force and also discuss its applications. They will also define terminal velocity and determine the terminal velocity given mass.
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Open Stax: Gravitational Potential Energy
In the following tutorial, students learn about gravitational potential energy in terms of work done against gravity. They will be able to show how knowledge of the potential energy as a function of position can be used to simplify...
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Open Stax: Politics in Gilded Age 1870 1900: Farmers' Revolt in the Populist Era
Learn about the development of the farmers' protest movement in the 19th century, and how it evolved into a political movement.
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Open Stax: The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
By reading this section from a chapter on "Jacksonian Democracy," students will be able to explain the factors that contributed to the Nullification Crisis and discuss the origins and creation of the Whig Party.
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Open Stax: Americans and the Great War 1914 1919: A New Home Front
World War I changed the configuration of the workforce and organized labor took the opportunity to strengthen its power base. This section looks at the impact of these changes on women and African Americans, as well as how the women's...
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Open Stax: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932 1941: The First New Deal
Examines the legislation enacted under Roosevelt's First New Deal; what was good, bad, and effective under this New Deal; and what the scope of Roosevelt's plan was for fixing the U.S. economy.
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Open Stax: Entrepreneurship: Creativity, Innovation, and Invention: How They Differ
This resources teaches students how to distinguish between creativity, innovation, and invention, and to explain the difference between pioneering and incremental innovation, and which processes are best suited to each.
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Open Stax: Development of Force Concept
In the following interactive students will begin to understand the definition of force.
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Open Stax: Bone Classification
This site helps you understand how the 206 bones that compose the adult skeleton are divided into five categories based on their shapes.
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Open Stax: Cardiac Muscle Tissue
Learn here about cardiac muscle tissue - a tissue only found in the heart.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Development and Aging of Endocrine System
Find out about the structure and function of the human edocrine system, and how it develops and changes with age.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Central Nervous System
Students study the adult brain, and learn the connections between the cerebrum and brain stem through the diencephalon, and from those regions into the spinal cord.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Motor Responses
Students learn the structure and function of the descending pathways of the motor commands from the cortex to the skeletal muscles.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Muscle Tissue and Motion
Learn here all about muscle tissue, which is tissue with properties that allow movement.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Types of Muscle Fibers
Learn here all about muscle fibers, including slow oxidative, fast oxidative and fast glycolytic.
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Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Skeletal System Functions
This site helps you understand the human skeletal system, a body system composed of bones and cartilage that performs critical functions for the human body.
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Open Stax: Calcium Interactions of the Skeletal System and Other Organ Systems
This site provides a plethora of information regarding calcium homeostatis and interactions of the skeletal system. Disorders such as hypocalemia and hypercalcemia are discussed.
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Open Stax: Divisions of the Skeletal System
The following site helps us understand the divisions of the skeletal system. The skeletal system consists of all of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments of the body that support and give shape to the body and body structures.
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Open Stax: The Skull
This interactive site provides all kinds of information regarding the human skull.
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Open Stax: Vertebral Column
Learn here about the vertebral column, otherwise known as the spine.
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Open Stax: Thoracic Cage
Learn here all about the thoracic cage, the part of the human anatomy that forms the thorax portion of the body.
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Open Stax: Pectoral Girdle
Learn here about the pectoral girdle, where the the bones that attach each upper limb to the axial skeleton form. This consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle.
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Open Stax: Pelvic Girdle and Pelvis
The following site helps you understand the pelvic girdle and pelvis.