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The paper describes a series of experiments designed to enable students to investigate certain physical properties of bone and to relate these properties to the function of bone in living organisms.

The investigations are intended to extend the study of physics across the normal subject division into biology experiments. The integration of basic physics principles with the teaching of biology via simple experiments leads to a deeper understanding of the interdependence of the sciences and an appreciation that study of selflimiting subject areas is a man-made phenomenon not reflected in nature.