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Intro to Respiratory Therapy ExamQuestions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
1.Identify the scientist that built the first barometer. -
Correct Answer ✅Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)
2.Convert pressure measurements from mm Hg to Torr. -
Correct Answer ✅1 mmHG = 1 Torr
3.Identify the scientist who explained the relationship
between altitude and barometric pressure. - Correct Answer
✅a.Blaisé Pascal
4.Identify a unit of measurement frequently used in Europe
for barometric pressure that is "named after" Blaise Pascal. -
Correct Answer ✅Kilopascals (kPa)
5.Identify the scientist who explained the relationship
between gas pressure and volume when temperature of the
gas is constant. - Correct Answer ✅Robert Boyle
6.Apply Boyle's Law to volume changes in the chest with
normal breathing. - Correct Answer ✅When the pressure in
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Questions and Answers (Latest Update
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the chest decreases and the diaphragm contracts the volume
in the chest increases
7.Identify the English scientist credited with the discovery of
dephlogisticated air (oxygen) in 1774. - Correct Answer
✅Joseph Priestly
8.Identify the scientist who described the mathematical
relationship between gas temperature and volume when gas
pressure is constant. - Correct Answer ✅Jacques-
Alexandre-Cesar-Charles (Charles Law)
9.Describe the purpose of the Pneumatic Institute established
by Thomas Beddoes in 1798 in Bristol England. - Correct
Answer ✅Use oxygen to treat a variety of maladies
10.Identify the scientist who explained that the amount of
gas dissolved in a liquid is directly proportional to the partial
pressure of all gases to which the liquid is exposed (above
the liquid) and the solubility of the gas in a liquid. - Correct
Answer ✅William Henry
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11.Identify the scientist and his law that explains the
relationship between pressure and surface tension in fluid
droplets that is applied to the pressure required to inflate the
alveoli. - Correct Answer ✅Simon De LaPlace Laplace's Law
12.Identify the French scientist who invented the stethoscope
for auscultation if the chest and authored the book - Diseases
of the Chest in 1816. - Correct Answer ✅Rene T.H Laennec
2.Identify the English scientist who developed the spirometer
to measure lung capacity in 1846. - Correct Answer ✅John
Hutchinson
3.Identify the Danish scientist who first described the
oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve in 1886. - Correct Answer
✅Christian Bohr
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