Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, October 31, 2014

The Biological Risk of Ultraviolet Light From the Sun

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In Section 14.9 (Blue and Ultraviolet Radiation) of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I di...
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Friday, October 24, 2014

A Log-Log Plot of the Blackbody Spectrum

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Section 14.7 (Thermal Radiation) of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains one of my favorite illustrati...
Friday, October 17, 2014

A Theoretical Model of Magneto-Acoustic Imaging of Bioelectric Currents

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Twenty years ago, I became interested in magneto-acoustic imaging, primarily influenced by the work of Bruce Towe that was called to my att...
Friday, October 10, 2014

John H Hubbell

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In the references at the end of Chapter 15 (Interaction of Photons and Charged Particles with Matter) in the 4th edition of Intermediate Phy...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Update on the 5th edition of IPMB

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A few weeks ago, Russ Hobbie and I submitted the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology to our publisher. We are not...
Friday, September 26, 2014

The First Steps in Seeing

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The First Steps in Seeing , by Robert Rodieck. Russ Hobbie and I discuss the eye and vision in Chapter 14 of the 4th edition of Inte...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

Lumens, Candelas, Lux, and Nits

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In Chapter 14 (Atoms and Light) of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss photometry ...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

More about the Stopping Power and the Bragg Peak

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The Bragg peak is a key concept when studying the interaction of protons with tissue. In Chapter 16 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Phy...
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Friday, September 5, 2014

Raymond Damadian and MRI

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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield “for their discoveries concerning ma...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Student’s T Test

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Primer of Biostatistics , by Stanton Glantz. Probability and statistics is an important topic in medicine. Russ Hobbie and I discuss ...
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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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