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Fabien leaps off the edge of a cliff, not realizing he would likely die from the fall. Luckily his friend Gimble snares him with a lasso connected to a 4 m long rope. Once Fabien is hanging stationary with Gimble bravely holding the other end of the rope, Gimble notices that the rope has stretched by 10 cm. Assuming the rope has a diameter of 3 cm and Fabien has a mass of 22 kg, what is the Young’s modulus of the rope?

What is the number one cause of death in children ages 1 to 15 in the United States?

Approximately 80% of which special patient population presents to surgery with one or more comorbid conditions?

Carlin hangs a sign in front of her shop with a cable held away from the building by a lightweight pole. The cable makes an angle of 60 degrees with the wall, and the sign hangs from the edge of the pole, which has a length of 1.5 m and is perpendicular to the wall. Once the sign is hung, Carlin measures a tension in the cable of 150 N. What is the mass of the sign?

What is the term for the mechanism of injury in a trauma patient that takes into account velocity of the injuring force, flexibility of the tissue, and shape of the injuring force?

Which position enhances a bariatric patient’s total lung volume and aids in ventilation?

Kellen and his crew are training for their next expedition by running laps on a circular track. They complete 2 laps in 580 seconds. If the radius of the track is 191 m, what was his average tangential velocity?

Kaposi’s sarcoma is sometimes seen in combination with which of the following diseases?

A patient undergoing bariatric surgery may require extra time for general anesthetic reversal because anesthetic agents may be accumulated in and slowly eliminated from what type of tissue?

Which body system is highly susceptible to injury during positioning of bariatric and geriatric patients?