Friday, April 29, 2022

How the Attenuation of Light Depends on Wavelength

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Air and Water , by Mark Denny . In Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the absorption o...
Friday, April 22, 2022

So Simple a Beginning

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So Simple a Beginning , by Raghuveer Parthasarathy . My friend Raghuveer (Raghu) Parthasarathy (author of the blog The Eighteenth Elephant ...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology

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Louis Harold Gray: A Founding Father of Radiobiology , by Sinclair Wynchank. Only great scientists have units named after them: the newton ,...
Friday, April 8, 2022

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the full version of its Sixth Assessm...
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Friday, April 1, 2022

Diffusion with a Buffer

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The Mathematics of Diffusion , by John Crank. Homework Problem 27 in Chapter 4 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology examines d...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Physics of Life

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Decadal Survey of Biological Physics/ Physics of Living Systems . A report by the National Academies. On Wednesday I attended a National Aca...
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Friday, March 18, 2022

Otto Schmitt and the Bidomain Model

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In Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the bidomain model . Myocardial cells are typic...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Numerical Recipes is Online

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Numerical Recipes , by Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I oft...
Friday, March 4, 2022

The Annotated Hodgkin & Huxley: A Readers Guide

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The Annotated Hodgkin & Huxley , by Indira Raman and David Ferster . I have always loved the classic set of five papers published by H...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Teaching Dynamics to Biology Undergraduates: the UCLA Experience

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The goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and the goal of this blog, is to explore the interface between physics, medicine...