Why do you need physics and chemistry to be a respiratory therapist?
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Chemistry is so if you need to give doses or such to your patient, you dont cause a bad chemical reaction. Also, you need to understand things like diffusion, transport, osmosis, you need to learn to read chemical equations and formulas.

Here are some of the physics terms and principles that are directly applied to the study of respiration: speed, volume, flux, flow, volume-rate flow, pressure, period, frequency, resonance, Bernoulli's Principle, Pascal's Principle, the equation of continuity, mass-flow rates, work, energy, dosing, dosages, magnetic resonance imaging, x-rays... And the list goes on. Physics is the basic science for understanding how things work and how they happen. The human body is a physical system and all physiology is, at the basics, just physics.

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