Friday, August 28, 2020

An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory in Living State Physics

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One weakness of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is that it doesn’t have an associated laboratory. Students need to learn how ...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Heaps of Precessing Protons

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Spin Dynamics , by Malcolm Levitt . Last week’s post quoted from Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , by Malcolm Levitt . ...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Can T2 Be Longer Than T1?

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In Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss magnetic resonance imaging . A key process in MR...
Friday, August 7, 2020

The SI Logo

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology uses the metric system . On page 1, Russ Hobbie and I write “The metric system is official...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Free Convection and the Origin of Life

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Free convection is an important process in fluid dynamics . Yet Russ Hobbie and I rarely discuss it in Intermediate Physics for Medicine a...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Tests for Human Perception of 60 Hz Moderate Strength Magnetic Fields

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The first page of “Tests for Human Perception of 60 Hz Moderate Strength Magnetic Fields,” by Tucker and Schmitt ( IEEE Trans. Biomed. E...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Physics World: Medical Physics

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I subscribe to a weekly newsletter from Physics World about medical physics . This newsletter and its associated website ( physicsworld.com...
Friday, July 10, 2020

An S1 Gradient of Refractoriness is Not Essential for Reentry Induction by an S2 Stimulus

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Sometimes the shortest papers are my favorites. Take, for example, an article that I published twenty years ago last month: a two-page commu...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Dreyer’s English

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Dreyer’s English , by Benjamin Dreyer. In this blog I’ve reviewed several books about writing ( On Writing Well , Plain Words , Do I Ma...