Friday, October 25, 2019

One Hundred Books About Physics for Medicine and Biology

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When I was in high school, I became intrigued by St. John’s College and their Great Books program. I had their brochure, which included a l...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

Entry Region and Deviations from Poiseuille Flow

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Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology analyzes viscous flow in a tube, also known as Poiseuille flow . Russ Hobbie an...
Friday, October 11, 2019

A Blog as Ancillary Material for a Physics Textbook

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Today I’m attending the Fall 2019 Meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society and the Michigan Section of the Americ...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Spiral MRI

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In Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss a type of magnetic resonance imaging called ech...
Friday, September 27, 2019

The Cauchy Distribution

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In an appendix of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I analyze the Gaussian probability distribution It...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Happy Birthday Professor Fung

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Yuan-Cheng Fung celebrated his 100 th birthday last Sunday. Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues , by Y. C. Fung. ...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology has a New Website

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A New Website This summer I received an email from University Technology Services saying that faculty websites, like the one I maintain ab...
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Friday, September 6, 2019

The Linear No-Threshold Model of Radiation Risk

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Certain topics discussed in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology always fascinate me. One is the linear no-threshold model . In Se...
Friday, August 30, 2019

The Book of Why

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The Book of Why , by Judea Pearl. At Russ Hobbie ’s suggestion, I read The Book of Why , by Judea Pearl . This book presents a new way ...
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