Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, June 28, 2013

Lotka-Volterra equations

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Russ Hobbie and I don’t study population dynamics much in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . To me, it’s m...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Life’s Ratchet

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Life ’ s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos , by Peter Hoffmann. This week I finished reading Life’s Ratchet: Ho...
Friday, June 14, 2013

I WENT TO PARIS AND I MISSED THE VERY BEST THING!

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Three summers ago, my wife and I visited Paris for our 25th wedding anniversary. We carefully planned our trip so we could see all the most...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Resource Letter BSSMF-1: Biological Sensing of Static Magnetic Fields

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In the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Physics , physicist Leonard Finegold published “ Resource Letter BSSMF-1: Biological S...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Rounding Off the Cow

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In the October 2012 issue of the American Journal of Physics , Dawn Meredith and Jessica Bolker published an article about “ Rounding Off...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Eleanor Adair (1926-2013)

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Eleanor Adair , who studied the health risks of microwave radiation, died on April 20 in Hamden , Connecticut at the age of 86. A 2001 int...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

The Lorenz equations and chaos

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Fifty years ago, Edward Lorenz (1917–2008) published an analysis of Rayleigh-Benard convection that began the study of a field of mathema...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Graduation

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Today, my wife Shirley and I will attend the graduation of our daughter Kathy from Vanderbilt University . She is getting her undergraduate ...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Biodamage Via Shock Waves Initiated by Irradiation With Ions

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Just two doors down the hall from my office in Hannah Hall of Science at Oakland University is the office of my friend Gene Surdutovich . G...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

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Sixty years ago yesterday the journal Nature published a letter by James Watson and Francis Crick titled “ Molecular Structure of Nucleic...
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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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