Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, December 25, 2009

A Present From Santa

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Santa arrived last night and left you, dear reader, a present in your stocking: two new homework problems for the 4 th edition of Intermedi...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Where's Albert?

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Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest physicists of the 20 th century, and perhaps of all time . He certainly is one of the be...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Error Function

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In the November 6th entry to this blog, I mentioned one special function introduced in the 4 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medici...
Friday, December 4, 2009

Hot Tubs and Heat Stroke

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In Chapter 10 (about Feedback and Control) of the 4 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discus...
Friday, November 27, 2009

What’s Wrong With These Equations?

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The 4 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is full of equations: thousands of them. Each one must fit into the text...
Friday, November 20, 2009

The Feynman Lectures

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics , by Richard Feynman. On page 318 of the 4 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles

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Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles , by Eisberg and Resnick. One of the sources that Russ Hobbie and ...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Clark and Plonsey

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Problem 30 in Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is based on a paper by John Clark and Robert Pl...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Hobbie and Roth, Back in the Saddle Again

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In the November, 2009 issue of the American Journal of Physics , Russ Hobbie and I published “ Resource Letter MP-2: Medical Physics .” Our...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Felix Bloch

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One hundred and four years ago today, Felix Bloch (1905–1983) was born in Zurich , Switzerland. Bloch received his PhD in physics in 1928 f...
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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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