Friday, August 27, 2010

Don’t throw away the cane

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In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I quote the article “ Don’t Throw Away th...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

The Anger Camera

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In Section 17.12 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the gamma camera , used in...
Friday, August 13, 2010

The barn

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Figure 15.2 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology shows the cross section for the interaction of photons wi...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Iron, Nature’s Universal Element

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Iron, Nature's Universal Element: Why People Need Iron and Animals Make Magnets , by Eugenie Mielczarek. A few months ago in this...
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 ...