Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, August 26, 2016

Everything's Up To Date in Kansas City

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Union Station. I posted the last two entries in this blog while on a trip to Kansas City to visit my parents. I didn’t grow up in the K...
Friday, August 19, 2016

How to Explain Why Unequal Anisotropy Ratios is Important Using Pictures but No Mathematics

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Ten years ago, at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference in New York City, I presented a paper titled “ How...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Have We Reached the Athletic Limits of the Human Body?

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The Olympics are in full swing this week, giving us in the United States a brief respite from our nasty presidential campaign. As you might...
Friday, August 5, 2016

Zapping Their Brains at Home

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“Zapping Their Brains at Home,” by Anna Wexler. A couple weeks ago, Anna Wexler published an article in the New York Times titled “ Z...
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...
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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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