Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Showing posts with label Lots of math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lots of math. Show all posts
Friday, June 20, 2025

A Toy Model for Straggling

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One of the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Problem 31 in Chapter 16) introduces a toy model for the Br...
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Friday, May 23, 2025

Knife Edge Diffraction

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology doesn’t analyze diffraction . It’s mentioned a few times—in the chapters about images (Chap. ...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Sine and Cosine Integrals and the Delta Function

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Trigger warning : This post is for mature audiences only; it may contain Fourier transforms and Dirac delta functions .  In Chapter 11 of I...
Friday, October 25, 2024

A Toy Model of Climate Change

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Introduction A screenshot of the online book Math for the People . In Introductory Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mak...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Taylor Series

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The Taylor series is particularly useful for analyzing how functions behave in limiting cases. This is essential when translating a mathemat...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Numerical Solution of the Quadratic Formula

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Homework Problem 7 in Chapter 11 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology examines fitting data to a straight line. In that problem...
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I am an emeritus professor of physics at Oakland University, and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. The purpose of this blog is specifically to support and promote my textbook, and in general to illustrate applications of physics to medicine and biology.
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