Friday, July 29, 2016

Niels Bohr and the Stopping Power of Alpha Particles

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In Chapter 15 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the interaction of charged particles with electr...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Error Rates During DNA Copying

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Chapter 3 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses the Boltzmann factor . In the homework exercises at the end of the cha...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Word Clouds

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I have always wondered about those funny-looking collections of different-sized, different-colored words: the word cloud . This week I learn...
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Friday, July 8, 2016

Cell Biology by the Numbers

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Cell Biology by the Numbers, by Ron Milo and Rob Phillips. Six years ago I wrote an entry in this blog about the bionumbers website. ...
Friday, July 1, 2016

The Wien Exponential Law

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In Section 14.8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss blackbody radiation . Our analysis is similar ...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Chemostat Homework Problems

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In the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a section on the chemostat . 2.6  The Chemo...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Neural Lacing

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One feature of blogging that I like are the comments. I don’t get many, but I appreciate those I do get. Each week I share my new blog entr...
Friday, June 10, 2016

PHY 325 and PHY 326

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One reason I write this blog is to help instructors who adopt Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology as their textbook. I teach clas...
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Friday, June 3, 2016

Direct Neural Current Imaging in an Intact Cerebellum with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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I amIn the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a paragraph to Chapter 18 ( Magnetic Reso...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

An Analytical Example of Filtered Back Projection

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One of my hobbies is to find tomography problems that can be solved analytically. I know this is artificial—all tomography for medical imag...