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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