Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, September 24, 2010

Adrien-Marie Legendre

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On page 181 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce Legendre polynomials . The Le...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

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Apparently, dear reader, I am still obsessed by my trip to Paris last summer, because this will be the third week in a row that this blog h...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Joseph Fourier

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The August 2010 issue of Physics Today , published by the American Institute of Physics , contains an article by T. N. Narasimhan about “ T...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, Biological Physicist

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Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains an analysis of the flow of a viscous fluid through a...
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...
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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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