Showing posts with label Lots of math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lots of math. Show all posts
Friday, June 12, 2026

A New Homework Problem on Modeling

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Russ Hobbie and I like to use the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology to illustrate modeling . But rarely d...
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...