Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, August 30, 2013

The Ascent of Sap in Trees

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In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I included a homework problem about movi...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Stealth Nanoparticles Boost Radiotherapy

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I hope, dear readers, that you all have been regularly browsing through http://medicalphysicsweb.org , the website from the Institute of Phy...
Friday, August 16, 2013

We Need Theoretical Physics Approaches to Study Living Systems

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An editorial titled “ We Need Theoretical Physics Approaches to Study Living Systems ,” which was published recently in the journal Physical...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Martha Chase (1927-2003)

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Ten years ago yesterday, the American biologist Martha Chase passed away. Chase is famous for her participation in a fundamental genetics e...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Me standing next to the entrance of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Last week my wife, my mother-in-law, and I made a brief trip to Long...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Bioelectromagnetism: Principles and Applications of Bioelectric and Biomagnetic Fields

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Bioelectromagnetism , by Malmivuo and Plonsey. A good textbook about bioelectricity and biomagnetism is Bioelectromagnetism: Principles...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Reinventing Physics For Life-Science Majors

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The July issue of Physics Today contained an article by Dawn Meredith and Joe Redish titled “ Reinventing Physics for Life-Science Majors...
Friday, July 12, 2013

The Bohr Model

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One hundred years ago this month, Niels Bohr published his model of the atom (“ On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules ,” Philosophica...
Friday, July 5, 2013

The Spark of Life

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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body , by Frances Ashcroft. This week I finished the book The Spark of Life: Electricity i...
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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...
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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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