Friday, August 25, 2017

David Goodsell

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The Machinery of Life , by David Goodsell. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I recommend the book The...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Tenth Anniversary of this Blog About Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . This week marks the tenth anniversary of this blog dedicated to the textbook Intermedia...
Friday, August 11, 2017

The Eclipse

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A total eclipse of the sun. On August 21, I’ll be viewing the total eclipse from a location just north of Kansas City . I’ve never seen ...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Machines In Our Hearts

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Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care , by Kirk Jeffrey. In Chapter ...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Suki is Going Deaf

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Suki Roth, in front of a copy of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Suki is going deaf. She has not lost all her hearing ...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

Do I Make Myself Clear?

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Do I Make Myself Clear? by Harold Evans. I enjoy reading books about writing. Recently I read Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well ...
Friday, July 14, 2017

Nerve, Muscle, and Synapse

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Nerve, Muscle, and Synapse , by Bernard Katz. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie ad I include a footnote a...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach

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The best way to learn about bioelectricity is to read Chapters 6–9 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . But suppose, for some...
Friday, June 30, 2017

The Fast Fourier Transform

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In Chapter 11 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the fast Fourier transform . The calculation o...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Urea

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Figure 4.12 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology shows a log-log plot of the diffusion constant of various molecules as a fun...