Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, November 28, 2014

The Bowling Ball and the Feather

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Dropping a feather and a ball in a vacuum to show that they fall at the same rate is a classic physics demonstration. We have a version of t...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

The MCAT and IPMB

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The Medical College Admission Test , famously known as the MCAT, is an exam taken by students applying to medical school. The Association of...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field , by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon. Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell are two o...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Low Reynolds Number Flows

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In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the Reynolds number . The im...
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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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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