Growing interest in studying the heart from the physical point of view led to a workshop held at the University of California in San Diego. Topics covered include the structure, mechanical properties and electrical activity of the heart and myocardium, and mathematical models of heart function.

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1 Structure and Function of the Diastolic Heart.- 2 Structural Considerations in Formulating Material Laws for the Myocardium.- 3 Toward a Stress Analysis in the Heart.- 4 Identification of the Time-Varying Properties of the Heart.- 5 Factors Affecting the Regional Mechanics of the Diastolic Heart.- 6 Finite Element Modeling of Ventricular Mechanics.- 7 Multidimensional Measurement of Regional Strains in the Intact Heart.- 8 Epicardial Deformation From Coronary Cinéangiograms.- 9 Functional Consequences of Regional Heterogeneity in the Left Ventricle.- 10 Mathematical Modeling of the Electrical Activity of Cardiac Cells.- 11 Mathematical Models of Pacemaker Tissue in the Heart.- 12 Low-Dimensional Dynamics in the Heart.- 13 Iteration of the Human Atrioventricular (AV) Nodal Recovery Curve Predicts Many Rhythms of AV Block.- 14 Ionic Basis of the Wenckebach Phenomenon.- 15 Parasystole and the Pacemaker Problem.- 16 Electrical Propagation in Distributed Cardiac Tissue.- 17 Wave Propagation in Myocardium.- 18 Cellular Automata Models of Cardiac Conduction.- 19 Estimating the Ventricular Fibrillation Threshold.- 20 Basic Mechanisms of Ventricular Defibrillation.- 21 Mechanically Induced Changes in Electrophysiology: Implications for Arrhythmia and Theory.- 22 Nonlinear Dynamics at the Bedside.- 23 A Clinical Perspective on Theory of Heart.