Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, February 24, 2012

The Hodgkin and Huxley Macarena

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Last week, Oakland University had the honor of hosting James Keener , Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah . H...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Measurement of Blood Pressure

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Last week I was in the hospital with pneumonia . I’m fine now, thank you, but I was there three days, and last week’s blog entry was posted ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Decay Plus Input at a Constant Rate

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Section 2.7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is titled Decay Plus Input at a Constant Rate. When I taugh...
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Friday, February 3, 2012

Charles Dickens: Medical Physicist?

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The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens occurs this week (he was born February 7, 1812). I am a big Dickens fan, so I had to...
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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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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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