Friday, November 30, 2018

Venkataranan Ramakrishna, Biological Physicist

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Failed physicist? I was reading the November issue of APS News (A publication of the American Physical Society ) when I noticed an arti...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Write Mind

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Write Mind , by Eric Maisel. Every Saturday morning my wife and I visit the Rochester Hills Public Library . I like to browse the stacks...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Mathematics is Biology’s Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology is Mathematics’ Next Physics, Only Better

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is full of equations. Equations are on almost every page, and often lots of them. Russ Hobbie...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Marie Curie and her X-ray Vehicles’ Contribution to World War I Battlefield Medicine

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Sunday is Veterans Day . This year the holiday is particularly significant because it marks the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending ...
Friday, November 2, 2018

Roderick MacKinnon's Nobel Lecture

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In Chapter 9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I write Roderick MacKinnon and his colleagues determined...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Earl Bakken (1924-2018)

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Earl Bakken. From the Bakken Museum, via wikipedia. Earl Bakken , cofounder of the medical device company Medtronic , died Sunday at the...
Friday, October 19, 2018

The Bond Number

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In graduate school, I did experiments on nerves submerged in saline . When dissecting or manipulating the tissue, I was amazed by the effect...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

A Trick to Generate Exam Problems

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . When teaching a class based on Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , instruct...
Friday, October 5, 2018

A Bidomain Model for the Extracellular Potential and Magnetic Field of Cardiac Tissue

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My research notebooks from graduate school. In graduate school, I worked with John Wikswo measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon ...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Steven Strogatz Lectures on Youtube

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos . Previously ( here , here , and here ), I’ve written about Steven Strogatz , Professor of Applied Mathemat...