Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, February 27, 2015

Alan Turing, Biological Physicist

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Recently, my wife and I went to the theater to see The Imitation Game , about Alan Turing and the breaking of the enigma code during World...
Friday, February 20, 2015

The Ugliest Equation

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The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains thousands of equations. One of them, Equation 15.22, gives the cr...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Willem Einthoven, Biological Physicist

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In Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mention Einthoven’s triangle . This tr...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

The Sinc Function

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss many mathematical functions , from common o...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging

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Magnetic resonance comes in two types: nuclear magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance . In Chapter 18 of the 4th edition of...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Cobalt-60

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In Chapter 16 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mention the radioactive isotope coba...
Friday, January 16, 2015

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , by Rebecca Skloot. For Christmas I received a portable CD player to replace one that was broke...
Friday, January 9, 2015

The Electric Potential of a Rectangular Sheet of Charge

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My idea of a great physics problem is one that is complicated enough so that it is not trivial, yet simple enough that it can be solved anal...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Triplet Production

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe how x rays interact with tissue by pair p...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

Excerpt from the Fifth Edition

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Next month, Russ Hobbie and I will receive the page proofs for the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . I welcome...
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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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