Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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 ...

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

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...

Last week I introduced the Helmholtz coil and the Maxwell coil . The Maxwell coil is useful for creating the magnetic field gradient needed...

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

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

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

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

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...

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