Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, June 27, 2025

A Toy Model for Radiation Damage

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Sometimes a toy model (a simple model that strips away all the detail to expose the underlying mechanisms more clearly) can be useful. Toda...
Friday, June 20, 2025

A Toy Model for Straggling

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One of the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Problem 31 in Chapter 16) introduces a toy model for the Br...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Photobiomodulation

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Harvest with her copy of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . My Treeing Walker Coonhound Harvest is getting older and having so...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Mechanisms of the FLASH Effect: Current Insights and Advances

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I’ve written about FLASH radiotherapy previously in this blog ( here and here ). FLASH is when you apply radiation in a single brief pulse...
Friday, May 30, 2025

The Crucial Decade That Ion Channels Were Proven to Exist

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“ The Crucial Decade That Ion Channels Were Proven to Exist: The Vision of Bertil Hille and Clay Armstrong and How It Came Through.” Recentl...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Knife Edge Diffraction

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology doesn’t analyze diffraction . It’s mentioned a few times—in the chapters about images (Chap. ...
Friday, May 16, 2025

The Age of Reason Begins

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The Age of Reason Begins , by Will and Ariel Durant . The title of this week’s post is ironic, because with all the events of the last few m...
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
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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