Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, April 29, 2016

The Four Equations of Old Quantum Theory

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Subtle is the Lord , by Abraham Pais. In ‘Subtle is the Lord…”: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein , Abraham Pais illustrates...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Chernobyl

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The Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The worst nuclear accident ever happened thirty years ago this week: Chernobyl . Below are excerpts from ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

The Eigenvalue Problem

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An image of fiber tracts in the brain using Diffusion Tensor Imaging. From: Wikipedia . In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolo...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Darcy’s Law

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Table 4.3 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains five transport equations. Each has the form “ flux density equals a ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Strat-O-Matic Baseball

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My Die-Hard Cub Fan Club membership card. Monday is opening day ! When I was young I was an avid baseball fan. I still enjoy the ga...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine

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I’m cheap and I’m proud of it; I love free stuff. Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology isn’t free. Russ Hobbie and I appreciate o...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient

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When Russ Hobbie and I discuss transcranial magnetic stimulation in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we write that “because...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Mass Attenuation Coefficient and Areal Density

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I don’t like the mass attenuation coefficient ; it bugs me and it has weird units. Yet researchers studying the attenuation of x-rays in ma...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Welcome Home Scott Kelly

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Scott Kelly, when he returned to earth after a year on the space station. This week astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after near...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

Top 10 Isotopes

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Everyone loves “top ten” lists. So, I have prepared a list of the top ten isotopes mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolo...
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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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