Physiology for Engineers I — Homework Projects
HW 1 — Blood Pressure Model
The systemic-artery Windkessel model (sa.m). Presets for arteriosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis,
morbid obesity, exercise, and 2nd-degree heart block with live blood-pressure and cardiac-output readouts.
HW 2 — Left Heart & Aorta
The Cardio_SA_LV model: time-varying ventricular compliance, mitral/aortic valves, pressure-volume loops. Explore aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis and aortic insufficiency, uncompensated and compensated.
CardiacHW 3 — Glucose-Insulin Model
Dr. Khoo’s minimal model (GLUINSMODEL): oral glucose tolerance tests, Type I & II diabetes severity gains, metformin pharmacokinetics coupled to hepatic glucose output, and insulin injection.
EndocrineHomework Projects (Cell Physiology / Modeling)
HW 1 — Cell Population Dynamics
Logistic growth in a Petri dish with Euler time-step error analysis, the predator-prey system with phase-plane and Jacobian stability, and the stiff three-species Bacillus/Staph/phage model (with a live stiffness demo).
PopulationsHW 2 — Diffusion, Mass Action & Membrane Potential
Irreversible A+B→X+Y kinetics with conservation of mass, a diffusion-fed reaction with product feedback inhibition, and the chord-conductance membrane potential — including why IV potassium is lethal.
Cell physiologyHW 3 — Enzyme Kinetics
Full E+S⇌C→E+P dynamics vs the Michaelis-Menten approximation, Km determination, Lineweaver-Burk plots with an uncompetitive inhibitor, and Hill cooperativity for PFK-1.
BiochemistryHW 4 — Hodgkin-Huxley Action Potentials
Dr. Peskin’s squid-axon scripts, interactive: thresholds in µA and mV, absolute/relative refractory periods, hyper- and hypokalemia via EK, and frequency coding / adaptation under sustained current.
Neural