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Getting Started   1-2: Spirometry and lung volumes Form and Function   2-3: Rib motion during breathing 2-10: Stabilization of the gas-exchanging unit 2-11: Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction Statics   3-1: Resting positions of isolated lung and chest wall 3-2: Pressure volume characteristics of the respiratory system 3-4: Diaphragmatic position and function 3-5: Compliance 3-7: Spirometry and lung volumes 3-10: Setting the system in motion 3-12: Bubble experiment 3-1A: Pneumothorax 3-2A: Balloon under water Dynamics   4-3: Change in velocity - the airways as roads 4-8: Quasi-static vs. high flow lung expansion 4-9: Small airways and the tethering effect of the lung 4-10A: Equal pressure point 4-10B: Starling resistor 4-12A: Flow-volume plot 4-12B: 3D flow-volume-time graph for forced exhalation 4-13: Flow limitation and the equal pressure point 4-15: Location of the equal pressure point The Gas Exchanger   5-6: Carbon dioxide dissocation curve 5-8A: The oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve - right and left shift 5-8B: Single alveolus in context of normal lung 5-8C: V/Q mismatch 5-8D: The oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve - hemoglobin levels The Gas Exchanger   5-10: Diffusion of oxygen 5-11: Supplemental oxygen and shunt The Controller   6-3: Slowly and rapidly adapting stretch receptors 6-4: Muscle spindles and load compensation 6-5: Interactions between peripheral and central chemoreceptors The Controller and Acid-Base Physiology   7-1: Primary respiratory acidosis 7-2: Primary respiratory alkalosis 7-3: Primary metabolic acidosis 7-5: Primary metabolic alkalosis 7-6: Primary disorders and compensations Exercise Physiology   9-2: Ventilation and the anaerobic threshold 9-4: The Fick equation