Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, October 7, 2022

Thomas Young, Biological Physicist

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything , by Andrew Robinson. Almost ten years ago in this blog , I speculated about who was the greatest biologica...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

Radiofrequency Radiation and Cancer, by David Robert Grimes

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Grimes DR (2021) Radiofrequency Radiation and Cancer, JAMA Oncology , 8:456–461. In my book Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? I dis...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Michael Joy (1940–2020)

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This week I belatedly learned that Mike Joy died. This was sad news indeed. Joy was a Canadian electrical engineer who measured current den...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Drawdown

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Drawdown , Edited by Paul Hawken . This blog is about physics applied to medicine and biology, but if we don’t solve the climate crisis the...
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Friday, September 9, 2022

An Immense World

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“Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Numerical Integration

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A homework problem in Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology states Problem 28 . Integrate Eq. 14.33 over all wavelen...
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Friday, August 26, 2022

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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When I was at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1990s, I worked on transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain. In Chapter...
Friday, August 19, 2022

The Loudest Sound

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In Table 13.1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I list the approximate intensity levels of various sounds,...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature

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Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature , by Richard Rhodes. I often become interested in the writing of a particular author and read seve...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Energy: A Human History

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In Chapter 2 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I have an end-of-chapter homework problem about consuming a...
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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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