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Describe the events that take place in a neurone which produce an action potential

  • The action potential begins when the stimulus exceeds the threshold.
    - The voltage gated sodium ion channels open.
    - Sodium ions diffuse into the axon down an electrochemical gradient.
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Calculating the hydrostatic force on a submerged body

The hydrostatic force is a force exerted by a fluid on a submerged body. This force comes from the weight of the fluid acting down on the submerged body, so it can be derived from the equation weight (in ...

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How do you calculate the pH of a weak acid?

Strong acids dissociate fully in so...

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How do I integrate by parts?

Lets use and example: y=xsin(x). If we try to integrate this normally, we find it very hard. The integration by parts method splits up the function we are integrating into manageable bits. The formula...

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What are the stages of drug testing?

The first stage when a new drug is developed is to model how it is expected to behave in the human body, test animals and individual cells on a computer. This ...

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