Conservation of Energy Yields the Incubation Time and Embryonic Metabolism in Birds and Tyrannosaur Dinosaurs from the Geometry of the Egg

• Scott Lee ^[1] ; Joshua Thomas ^[1] ; Max Cooley ^[1] ; Richard Irving ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Toledo

     University of Toledo

     City of Toledo, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 59, Nº. 7, 2021, págs. 548-551
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Exciting examples of physics principles illuminate the power and scope of our discipline. In this paper, we discuss a conservation of energy example for an introductory course. Energy conservation is applied to bird and dinosaur eggs to derive a method to predict the incubation period and the embryonic metabolism solely from the egg geometry. The power of this fundamental principle to yield insights into a biological example helps to demonstrate the utility of conservation of energy.