Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, February 25, 2011

Round-Number Handbook of Physics for Medicine and Biology

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The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains a list of fundamental constants in Appendix O. Russ Hobbie and I...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Tc-99m Production: Losing the Reactor

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Periodically in this blog I have discussed the growing technetium-99m shortage that faces medical physics (see, for instance, here , here ...
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Friday, February 11, 2011

The Framingham Heart Study

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The Framingham Heart Study is one of the oldest and most widely cited research studies in the history of medicine. Russ Hobbie and I menti...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Britton Chance (1913-2010)

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Britton Chance died late last year. The website www.brittonchance.org states that Britton Chance, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., for more than 50 y...
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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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
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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