Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, November 29, 2013

From Vision to Change: Educational Initiatives and Research at the Intersection of Physics and Biology

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A few months ago, the journal CBE—Life Sciences Education published a special issue about education at the intersection of physics and biol...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

My Ideal Bookshelf

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My Ideal Bookshelf , by Thessaly La Force, with artwork by Jane Mount. While browsing at the library recently, I ran across the book ...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

Upcoming Events

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I like to use this blog to remind readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology about upcoming events they mi...
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Friday, November 8, 2013

Tobacco Mosaic Virus

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The tobacco mosaic virus. Table 4.2 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains list of various partic...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Isotopes of Carbon

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One of the fundamental ideas of nuclear physics is the isotope . In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

From Neuron to Brain

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From Neuron to Brain , by Stephen Kuffler and John Nicholls. In 1982, when I was accepted into graduate school at Vanderbilt University...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Osmosis and the Kidneys

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Physics of the Body , by Cameron, Skofronick, and Grant. One textbook that covers much of the same material as the 4th edition of Inter...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

How Well Does a Three-Sphere Model Predict Positions of Dipoles in a Realistically Shaped Head?

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When I worked at the National Institutes of Health , I collaborated with Susumu Sato, a neurophysiologist interested in electroencephalograp...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Medical Physics Qualifying Exams

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We have a Medical Physics PhD program here at Oakland University , and this was the week we administered the oral qualifying exam to our cu...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Hermann von Helmholtz, Biological Physicist

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Who was the greatest biological physicist ever? That’s a difficult question, but one candidate is the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz...
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
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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