Friday, July 24, 2009

Two-Dimensional Image Reconstruction

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In Section 12.4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Two-Dimensional Image Recon...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Random Walks in Biology

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Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg. In Chapter 4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbi...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Buoyancy

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Air and Water, by Mark Denny. In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a new sect...
Friday, July 3, 2009

Sync

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Sync , By Steven Strogatz. In the October 17, 2008 entry to this blog, I discussed Steven Strogatz ’s textbook Nonlinear Dynamics and C...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Physics Meets Biology

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Readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology may find a news feature by Jonathan Knight published in the S...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Resource Letter PFBi-1: Physical Frontiers in Biology

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Eugenie Mielczarek of George Mason University published “ Resource Letter PFBi-1: Physical Frontiers in Biology ” in the American Journal ...
Friday, June 12, 2009

The Magnetic Field of a Single Axon

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When I was in graduate school, working in John Wikswo ’s lab at Vanderbilt University , I calculated and measured the magnetic field of a si...
Friday, June 5, 2009

Ichiji Tasaki (1910-2009)

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Ichiji Tasaki (1910–2009) died January 4 in Bethesda, Maryland. Tasaki was known for his discovery in 1939 of saltatory conduction of acti...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Deep Brain Stimulation

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In Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe electrical stimulation (Secti...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Using Logarithmic Transformations When Fitting Allometric Data

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss least squares fitting . A homework problem...