Conservation of Energy Yields the Incubation Time and Embryonic Metabolism in Birds and Tyrannosaur Dinosaurs from the Geometry of the Egg
- 1 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in The Physics Teacher
- Vol. 59 (7), 548-551
- https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0018956
Abstract
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.Keywords
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