BSCI 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ideal Gas Law, Thoracic Cavity, Respiratory Tract
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Normal breathing moves 500 ml air/breath (tidal volume) Factors affecting respiratory capacity: size, sex, age, physical condition. Inspiratory reserve volume (irv: amount of air that can be taken in forcefully after tidal volume, 2100-3200 ml. Expiratory reserve volume: air that can be forcibly exhaled, 1200 ml. Residual volume: air in lungs after expiration, 1200 ml. Air that actually reaches respiratory zone=350 ml. Dead space volume: air that remains in conducting zone and never reaches alveoli, 150 ml. Completely mechanical process, depends on volume change in thoracic cavity. Volume changes pressure changes gas flows to equalize pressure. Air moves in and out of lungs by bulk flow. Atmospheric pressure: 760 mmhg at sea level, decreases as altitude increases. Lung pressure given relative to atmospheric (patm= 0 mmhg) Partial pressure= proportion of pressure of entire gas that is due to presence of individual gases. Partial pressure of the gas depends on fractional concentration of gas.