Friday, June 24, 2011

William Beaumont

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I spent last weekend at Mackinac Island in northern Lake Huron . It’s an interesting little place that you reach by ferry and that does not...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Opus 200

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In August 2007 I began posting entries to this blog, in order to highlight topics discussed in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for M...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

National Academies Press

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Getting correct and detailed information about the applications of physics to biology and medicine is important. The 4th edition of Intermed...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Jean Perrin and Avogadro’s Number

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Regular readers of this blog may recall that last summer I visited Paris for my 25th wedding anniversary , which was followed by a string of...
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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...