Friday, May 27, 2011

e, The Story of a Number

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On page 33 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce the constant e . The number ...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Non-Newtonian Fluids and the Rheology of Blood

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In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I explain the difference between a Newto...
Friday, May 13, 2011

Drawing Figures

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Two of my favorite figures in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology are Fig. 7.13 (the extracellular potential p...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Central Slice Theorem and Ronald Bracewell

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Chapter 12 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology deals with images and tomography . One of the key ideas in t...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Bursting

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Last week in this blog I talked briefly about bursting in pancreatic beta cells . A bursting cell fires several action potential spikes co...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Effects of Rapid Buffers on Ca2+ Diffusion and Ca2+ Oscillations

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I enjoy taking a scientific paper and reducing it to a homework problem. For example, one of the new homework problems in the 4th edition of...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Superconductivity

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This month marks the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity . An article in the magazine IEEE Spectrum states On Ap...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Point/Counterpoint Revisited

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In one of my first entries in this blog , I introduced readers to the Point/Counterpoint articles in the journal Medical Physics . I enjoy t...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Fukushima Nuclear Reactors

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Because of the scary events at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, the health hazards of radiation is in the news a lot. One place I t...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Maxwell Equation Sesquicentennial

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A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism , by James Clerk Maxwell. I am a big James Clerk Maxwell fan. In fact, I have made my living ...
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