Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, October 31, 2008

The Impact of Physics on Biology and Medicine

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For the last few years that I worked at the National Institutes of Health , Harold Varmus was the NIH director. Varmus was a Nobel Prize wi...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Sound and Ultrasound

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When Russ Hobbie and I started to prepare the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we discussed if we should add ...
Friday, October 17, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics

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Nonlinear dynamics is discussed in several chapters in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and particularly i...
Friday, October 10, 2008

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , by Edward Tufte. Early in my graduate school career (back when I used to have time to...
Friday, October 3, 2008

The Bends

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Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology , by Benedek and Villars. When I teach about hydrostatics from the 4th ed...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Inside Story: Physics in Medicine

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The Institute of Physics has an excellent website called “ Inside Story: Physics in Medicine ,” which contains some fascinating animations ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Virtual Colonoscopy

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Ever had a colonoscopy? It’s not pleasant. A paper published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 359, pages 1207—1217)...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Particle Physics Rap

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Today’s post (a rare non-Friday message) has nothing to do with the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and nothi...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Switching from Physics to Biology

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Physicists studying from the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology may be interested in entering the field of biolog...
Friday, September 5, 2008

Biocurious

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While surfing the internet one evening, I stumbled upon a fascinating website that will interest readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate...
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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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