Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, November 1, 2019

Perrin, Einstein, and Avogadro's Number

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Brownian Movement and Molecular Reality , by Jean Perrin (1910), translated by Frederick Soddy . Chapter 4 of Intermediate Physics for...
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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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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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