Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, April 25, 2014

Bernard Cohen and the Risk of Low Level Radiation

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the work of physicist Bernard Cohen (1924-...
Friday, April 18, 2014

The Periodic Table in IPMB

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The periodic table of the elements summarizes so much of science, and chemistry in particular. Of course, the periodic table is crucial in ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Bilinear Interpolation

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If you know the value of a variable at a regular array of points ( x i ,y j ), you can estimate its value at intermediate positions ( x,y ) ...
Friday, April 4, 2014

17 Equations that Changed the World

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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World , by Ian Stewart. Ian Stewart ’s book In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equ...
Friday, March 28, 2014

The Correspondence Between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs

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I recently obtained through interlibrary loan a copy of The Correspondence Between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

A Dozen New Homework Problems

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Russ Hobbie and I are hard at work on the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Sometimes we consider adding new m...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Light Scattering

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I often discuss the scattering of light . We mention ...
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Friday, March 7, 2014

Letters to a Young Scientist

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Letters to a Young Scientist , by Edward Wilson. I just finished reading Edward Wilson ’s book Letters to a Young Scientist . (I know, ...
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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...
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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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