Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, April 26, 2024

Thinking is Power

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Are Electromagnetic Fields Making me Ill? by Brad Roth. Recently I stumbled on a YouTube video about critical thinking in education, featur...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Good Vibrations

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In Chapter 10 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss negative feedback loops . Feedback is often used...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Authors at Oakland: A Celebration of the Book

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Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? , by Brad Roth Every year the Kresge Library at Oakland University hosts an event called “Authors...
Friday, April 5, 2024

Oh, Myyy!

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Recently I was reading an article by Ramsay Lewis and Yuhong Dong in The Epoch Times titled Invisible Electromagnetic Fields: Do They Ha...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Bill Catterall (1946–2024)

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William Catterall , known as “the father of ion channels,” died on February 28 at the age of 77. Russ Hobbie and I cite Catterall’s article...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Happy Birthday, Erwin Neher!

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German biophysicist Erwin Neher turned 80 last week. Neher and Bert Sakmann received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for t...
Friday, March 15, 2024

A New Version of Figure 10.13 in the Sixth Edition of IPMB

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Gene Surdotovich and I are hard at work preparing the 6 th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . One change compared ...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Stirling's Approximation

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I've always been fascinated by Stirling’s approximation , ln( n !) = n ln( n ) − n , where n ! is the  factorial . Russ Hobbie and I m...
Friday, March 1, 2024

A Text-Book on Medical Physics

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology provides, for the first time , a textbook about the role that physics plays in medicine. Wel...
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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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