Homeostasis through Breathing
By: Rohan Ayyar, Suyash Krishan, Gordy Brodeur, and Kevin Meneses
Hypothesis: We hypothesize that
breathing helps balance the body
after excessive periods of exercise, in
the end maintaining homeostasis.
Introduction: Homeostasis is when
your body is in equilibrium (equal
state) breathing is important in
keeping equilibrium because when
you exercise more there is more CO2
that needs to be expelled so you
breathe harder and more so you can
expel that CO2.
Analysis: If you look at your data listed, you will notice
that the recovery times are fairly similar for each day
(Within two minutes of each other) with Day 1 being the
closest of 5 seconds apart. However, because the
person who ran two laps they took almost twice as
many breaths for each day. This shows the more you
do any physical activity, the more breaths you have at
the end. It also shows that the 2 lap runner has to
breathe twice as much to match the 1 lap runner in
recovery time. The only error that could happen would
be that sometimes the runners would get
self-conscious and control their breathe instead of
relaxing normally, which is hard because you must
constantly be aware of your breath rate in order to have
the best data.
Results: Here were the results of the
experiment. As you can see in the graph,
the amount of breaths someone took in
30 seconds after 2 laps is twice the
amount as after 1 lap.
Summary: All this data was
accumulated in the course of 3
days. The only major difficulty we
faced was having different
weather because your breath
rate can go higher if its cold. The
idea of our lab was born from
having the sense that our resting
breath rate is less than after we
do some sort of physical activity
depending on the intensity of the
activity.
Procedure: First we measured basic resting
breath rate by counting the breaths we take in
30 secs. Then, we made 2 people run, one
person ran 1 lap while the other ran 2. After
they were individually finished running, we
measured their breath rate by counting the
breaths they take in 30 secs. Then we timed
how long it took to recover and catch our
breath. We repeated the process 2 more
times.
Materials: This experiment requires a
Stopwatch/cellular phone, notebook,
2 Runners, a 400 meter long track
(maximum), and a pencil