Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, January 31, 2014

The Feynman Lectures on Physics: New Millennium Edition

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www.feynmanlectures.info. Several years ago in this blog , I discussed The Feynman Lectures on Physics . Russ Hobbie and I cite The Fe...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Drosophila melanogaster

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A plush toy of Drosophila melanogaster . In Chapter 9 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie ...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

George Ralph Mines, Biological Physicist

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In Chapter 10 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the contribution of George Ra...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Happy Birthday, Earl Bakken!

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Today, Earl Bakken turns 90 years old. Bakken is the founder of the medical device company Medtronic , and he played a key role in the deve...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Integrals of Sines and Cosines

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Last week in this blog , I discussed the Fourier series . This week, I want to highlight some remarkable mathematical formulas that make the...
Friday, December 27, 2013

Fourier Series

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One of the most important mathematical techniques for a physicist is the Fourier series . I discussed Joseph Fourier , the inventor of this ...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

The Last Question

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Entropy and its role in the Second Law of Thermodynamics is one of the fundamental ideas of all science. One can think of entropy roughly ...
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Electricity and Magnetism

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Electricity and Magnetism , 3rd Edition, by Edward Purcell and David Morin. I have always enjoyed Edward Purcell ’s textbook Electrici...
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Friday, December 6, 2013

A Simplified Approach for Simultaneous Measurements of Wavefront Velocity and Curvature in the Heart Using Activation Times

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I am one of the coauthors on a paper published recently that analyzes how to determine properties of a cardiac wave front from measurements ...
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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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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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