Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, January 28, 2011

The Quantum Ten

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The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science , by Sheilla Jones. Over the holiday break, I read The Quantum Te...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Gaussian integration

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Chapter 8 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology covers Biomagnetism : the measurement of the magnetic field p...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

DNA animation by Drew Berry

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I know that the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology doesn’t discuss much about the physics of life at the molecula...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Convergence

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This week researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a white paper titled “The Third Revolution: The Convergence of...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Brownian Motion

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Brownian motion . We first address this top...
Friday, December 24, 2010

The littlest things can drive you nuts

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I hope that our readers (and Russ Hobbie and I do value and appreciate all our dear readers) find the list of references at the end of each...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Subtracting Large Numbers

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One of the most notorious difficulties in numerical computations is the loss of precision when subtracting two similar, large numbers to obt...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Robert Millikan

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One fundamental constant that appears repeatedly in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is the charge of the e...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

Physical Biology of the Cell

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Physical Biology of the Cell , by Phillips, Kondev, and Theriot. I spent some time this week looking over the recently published textbo...
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Friday, November 26, 2010

Acetylcholine and Loewi’s Dream

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In 1936, Otto Loewi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the role of acetylcholine and other chemic...
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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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