Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, February 28, 2014

The Encyclopedia of Life

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Although I am a champion of applying physics to biomedicine, physics has little impact on some parts of biology. For instance, much of zoolo...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Principles of Musical Acoustics

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Principles of Musical Acoustics , by William Hartmann. In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbi...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Bacterial Decision Making

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Medical and biological physics sometimes appear on the cover of Physics Today . For instance, this month (February, 2014) the cover shows E ...
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Distances and Sizes

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One of the additions that Russ Hobbie and I made to the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is an initial section...
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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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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