Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, November 24, 2023

The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science

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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science , by Peter Hotez . This week I read The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning , by Peter Hotez ...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Gustav Bucky and the Antiscatter Grid

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An antiscatter grid. Episcophagus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons . In Chapter 16 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Ru...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

Monet's Water Lilies

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When my wife and I were in Paris several years ago we visited the Musée de l’Orangerie , where Claude Monet ’s beautiful water lily murals...
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Friday, November 3, 2023

The Golay Coil

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Last week I introduced the Helmholtz coil and the Maxwell coil . The Maxwell coil is useful for creating the magnetic field gradient needed...
Friday, October 27, 2023

The Helmholtz Coil and the Maxwell Coil

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To do magnetic resonance imaging , you need a static magnetic field that is uniform and a switchable magnetic field that has a uniform gradi...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Mr. Clough

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.  Henry Adams Stephen Clough, from the 1975 Homestead Jr.-Sr. Hig...
Friday, October 13, 2023

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Biological Physicist

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J. Robert Oppenheimer. Did you watch Oppenheimer in the theater this summer? I did. The movie told how J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manha...
Friday, October 6, 2023

The Dobson Unit

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In Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the risk of DNA damage —and therefore cancer ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Decay Plus Input at a Constant Rate Revisited

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In Chapter 2 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the problem of decay plus input at a constant rat...
Friday, September 22, 2023

The Slide Rule

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In Chapter 2 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss semilog plots , where the vertical axis is marked...
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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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