Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, January 27, 2012

The Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology Tourist

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Over the Christmas break I was browsing through the Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across Ame...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Radiation Risks from Medical Imaging Procedures

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On December 13, 2011 the American Association of Physicists in Medicine issued a position statement (PP 25-A) about radiation risks from m...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Open Access

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The journal Medical Physics is one of the leading publications in the field of physics applied to medicine. Recently, many articles in Medi...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

Destiny of the Republic

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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President , by Candice Millard. Regular readers of this blog...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Wilhelm Roentgen

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The medical use of X rays is one of the main topics discussed in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . However...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Poisson's Ratio

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One of the many new problems that Russ Hobbie and I added to the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology deals with P...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Gadolinium

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While school children know the most famous elements listed in the periodic table (for example hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon), even many scie...
Friday, December 9, 2011

The Cyclotron

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The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology has its own Facebook group , and any readers of this blog who use Facebook...
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Feedback Loops

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Negative feedback is an important concept in physiology . Russ Hobbie and I discuss feedback loops in Chapter 10 of the 4th edition of Int...
Friday, November 25, 2011

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Russ Hobbie and I discuss thermodynamics in Chapter 3 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We take a stat...
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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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