Friday, August 28, 2015

Art Winfree and the Bidomain Model of Cardiac Tissue

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Art Winfree was a pioneer in applying physics and mathematics to cardiac electrophysiology . Russ Hobbie and I cite him often in the 5th e...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

The Coulter Counter

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In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I often include applications of important topics in the homework problem...
Friday, August 14, 2015

The Psychic Probe

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Foundation , by Isaac Asimov. In the summer my wife and I sometimes take long car trips, and I often listen to audiobooks while I drive...
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Friday, August 7, 2015

Kramers’ Law

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When preparing the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a homework problem about Kramers’...
Friday, July 31, 2015

The Divergence Theorem and Stokes’ Theorem

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When preparing the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a new homework problem to Chapter...
Friday, July 24, 2015

So You Don’t Like Error Functions?

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In Chapter 4 of the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce the diffusion equation (Equ...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Boston

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Boston , by Boston. I did something unusual for me last evening: I went to a rock concert. As a birthday present, my daughter Stephanie ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

The Machinery of Life

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The Machinery of Life , by David Goodsell. In the very first section of the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolog...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Fermi Problems and the Annual Background Radiation Dose from Potassium-40

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In the very first section of the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I emphasize the importance ...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

The Electric Potential of a Rectangular Sheet of Charge - Resolved

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In the January 9 post of this blog, I challenged readers to find the electrical potential V ( z ) that will give you the electric field E (...
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