When we add sugar to tea or coffee we might not really reflect on how much sugar we scoop up. What is one teaspoon for you may actually be two ârealâ teaspoons, which would mean you are actually consuming more calories than you thought. A normal teaspoon of sugar vs a heaped teaspoon of sugar.
they are inversely proportional (increasing area decreases velocity) therefore in large vessels like the vena cava, blood has a low velocity blood also has a low velocity in the capillary beds, because of the increased cross-sectional area produced by many capillaries.
Resistance - is opposition to flow and is a measure of the amount of friction blood encounters as it passes through the vessels. Blood flow (F) is directly proportional to the difference in blood pressure (Î´P) between two points in the circulation, that is, the blood pressure, or hydrostatic pressure, gradient. Thus, when Î´P increases, blood flow speeds up, and when Î´P decreases, blood flow declines.