Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, June 30, 2023

Gauss and von Humboldt

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The Age of Napoleon , by Will and Ariel Durant , Volume 11 of The Story of Civilization . Regular readers of this blog may recall that over ...
Friday, June 23, 2023

The Partition Function

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Any good undergrad statistical mechanics class analyzes the partition function . However, Russ Hobbie and I don’t introduce the partition ...
Friday, June 16, 2023

LaTeX and Mathematica

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Gene Surdutovich and I are hard at work on the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . So far, the main thrust of ou...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Is Quantum Mechanics Necessary for Understanding Magnetic Resonance?

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Hanson, L., “ Is Quantum Mechanics Necessary for Understanding Magnetic Resonance? ” Concepts Magn.Reson. , 32:329–340, 2008 In Chapter 18 o...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Calculus Made Easy

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology assumes the reader knows calculus . Most medical doctors and biologists have studied some cal...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Terminal Speed of Microorganisms

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A Paramecium aurelia seen through an optical microscope. Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paramecium.jpg) Homework Pr...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Breathless

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Breathless , by David Quammen . Whenever David Quammen has a new book, I put it on my “to read” list. Recently I finished his latest: Breat...
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Friday, May 12, 2023

The Unscientific King: Charles III’s History Promoting Homeopathy

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King Charles III of England was crowned this week. What’s that got to do with Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology ? Well, the k...
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Friday, May 5, 2023

Plans for a 6th Edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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Thank you for your interest in the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We’re considering a 6th edition and we wou...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Biomagnetism: The First Sixty Years

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Roth, B. J., 2023, Biomagnetism: The first sixty years . Sensors , 23:4218. The last two blog posts have dealt with biomagnetism : the ma...
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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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