Leif's Physiology Pages
Human Physiology, IPHY 3435, Spring 2007
Office Hours
Time: Monday 4-4:50 pm, Wednesday 5-5:50 pm
Location: TB1, Room 108. The temporary building is attached
to the West end of Clare Small. To get to my office from the lab
rooms, go out the North entrance of Ramaley. Go West,
and then take your next right (North). Continue North and enter
Clare Small. Turn left and go to the end of the hall. Then turn
right and go to the end of the hall. I am
in the last
office on your left.
If you need to meet me outside of schedule office hours, send me an e-mail and we'll arrange a time.
Practice Questions - Spring 2007
Practice Questions for Exam 2 (PDF format)
Practice Questions - Miscellaneous
Note: Test formats may change, but these give an idea of what I expected the exams to be like in an earlier year. There is some overlap with the more recent list (see above).
2005 Practice Questions for Exam 1 (PDF format)
2005 Practice Questions for Exam 2 (PDF format)
Metabolism & Metabolic Rate Lab
Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale - NY Times article about recent research that may explain common allometric scaling patterns in nature.
Skeletal Muscle
Mechanism of Filament Sliding - Animation of excitation-contraction coupling and the sliding filament process.
Nerve
Channel Gating During an Action Potential - Animation showing changes in sodium and potassium channels.
Propagation of the Action Potential - Animation showing action potential moving along the axon.
Neurotransmitter Release - Animation of the neuromuscular junction (similar to communication between neurons).