Friday, September 30, 2016

Rall's Equivalent Cylinder

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Chapter 6 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses nerve electrophysiology . In particular, Russ Hobbie and I derive the...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Magneto-Aerotactic Bacteria Deliver Drug-Containing Nanoliposomes to Tumour Hypoxic Regions

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In Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe magnetotactic bacteria . Several species of ba...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Rutherford Scattering and the Differential Cross Section

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In Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the differential cross section . We may wish t...
Friday, September 9, 2016

The Biomechanics of Solids and Fluids: The Physics of Life

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“The Biomechanics of Solids and Fluids: The Physics of Life,” by David Alexander. This summer a review article about biomechanics by D...
Friday, September 2, 2016

Whiplash

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Last week, my wife Shirley and I were in an automobile accident. We suffered no serious injuries, thank you, but the car was totaled and we ...
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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...