Friday, July 25, 2008

PhysicsCentral

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The American Institute of Physics has a website for the public called PhysicsCentral ( http://www.physicscentral.com ). The purpose of the...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Max Delbruck, Biological Physicist

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Niels Bohr's Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity , by Abraham Pais. Last week , I discussed the book Niels Bohr's Times...
Friday, July 11, 2008

Georg Charles von Hevesy

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Niels Bohr’s Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity , by Abraham Pais. Recently I finished reading the biography Niels Bohr’s Time...
Friday, July 4, 2008

Numerical Computing

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My research involves computer simulations, so I spend a lot of time implementing numerical algorithms. I view a numerical technique as a too...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Physicist Playing Cards

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Physicist Playing Cards. Last Christmas, my daughter Katherine gave me a unique and fascinating present: Physicist Playing Cards. Each c...
Friday, June 20, 2008

The Electrocardiogram

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http://www.skillstat.com/ECG_sim_demo.html When I teach biological physics , we spend at least one class discussing the electrocardiogra...
Friday, June 13, 2008

http://medicalphysicsweb.org

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Readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology who are particularly interested in Medical Physics will find th...
Friday, June 6, 2008

The "Big Three" Partial Differential Equations of Physics

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Often a mathematical physics class will focus on the “big three” partial differential equations of physics: the diffusion equation , the wav...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Peter Basser wins ISMRM Gold Medal for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

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Earlier this month, at the 16th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Should We Have a Molybdenum-99 Source in the United States?

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In the December 14, 2007 entry to this blog, I discussed how the shutdown of a nuclear reactor at Chalk River , Ontario caused a shortage o...