Friday, July 30, 2010

X-ray Crystallography

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Two weeks ago in this blog, when reviewing Judson ’s excellent book The Eighth Day of Creation , I wrote that X-ray crystallography played...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

AAPT Summer Meeting in Portland Oregon

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On Tuesday, Russ Hobbie gave a talk about “Medical Physics in the Introductory Physics Course” at the American Association of Physics Teach...
Friday, July 16, 2010

The Eighth Day of Creation

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The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology , by Horace Freeland Judson. I recently finished reading The Eight...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Paris

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I just returned from a vacation in Paris , where my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Russ Hobbie was there at the same t...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Reynolds Number

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The Reynolds number is a key concept for anyone interested in biofluid dynamics. Russ Hobbie and I discuss the Reynolds number in Section ...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Adolf Fick

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Russ Hobbie and I discuss Fick’s laws of diffusion in Chapter 4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The ...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Myopia

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Section 14.12 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses the physics of the eye . One topic related to v...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

The Gibbs Paradox

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Last week in this blog, I wrote that the “ Gibbs Paradox ” deserved an entire entry of its own. Well, here it is. Russ Hobbie and I mentio...
Friday, June 4, 2010

The Gibbs Phenomenon

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In chapter 11 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Fourier analysis , a fascinat...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Happy Birthday Laser!

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Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles , by Eisberg and Resnick. This month marks the 50 th anniversary o...