Friday, July 28, 2023

John Moulder (1945–2022)

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John Moulder , from Khurana et al. (2008) Med. Phys. , 35:5203, with permission from Wiley . John Moulder, a leading expert in radiation bio...
Friday, July 21, 2023

The Biological Physics Major

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Today I want to talk to high school students who, when they attend college, might be majoring in biological physics . What does a biological...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

A Short Course in Vector Calculus

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Want a short course in vector calculus? You can find one in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Divergence The divergence is ...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Integral of the Bessel Function

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Have you ever been reading a book, making good progress with everything making sense, and then you suddenly stop at say “wait… what?”. That ...
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...