{"product_id":"9783032263216","title":"Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIntermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRussell K. Hobbie | Bradley J. Roth | Eugene Surdutovich\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eScience \/ Life Sciences \/ Biophysics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis classic text has been used in over 20 countries by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biophysics, physiology, medical physics, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering. It bridges the gap between an introductory physics course and the application of physics to the life and biomedical sciences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExtensively revised and updated, the sixth edition incorporates modern developments at the interface between physics and biomedicine. The authors also include a new chapter on surface tension, and a more extensive discussion of ion beam therapy, along with biological examples. In addition, this new edition has an increased emphasis on the discussion of biological and medical examples and the development of qualitative skills such as dimensional analysis, estimation, toy models, and more. As with the previous edition, the first half of the text is primarily biological physics, emphasizing the use of ideas from physics to understand biology and physiology, and the second half is primarily medical physics, describing the use of physics in medicine for diagnosis (mainly imaging) and therapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIntermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology assumes prior courses in physics and calculus have been taken. It is ideal for self-study and as a reference for workers in medical and biological research. A solutions manual is available to instructors and each chapter has an extensive list of references.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe late \u003cstrong\u003eRussell K. Hobbie\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1934 in upstate New York. He received his BS in Physics from MIT and his PhD in Physics from Harvard in 1960. Prof. Hobbie then went to the University of Minnesota as a post-doc and remained there for 38 years. Originally working in nuclear physics, he became interested in medical issues when he met Richard Reece, MD at a dinner party. The two worked on computer-assisted interpretation of laboratory test results for several years. Hoping to make the pre-med physics course more interesting, Prof. Hobbie, between 1971 and 1973, audited all the courses medical students take in their first two years at the University of Minnesota. He was amazed by the amount of physics he found in these courses that had seldom been discussed in the general physics course. A number of articles he wrote for the American Journal of Physics presaged the current content recommendations for pre-med and biological physics courses. Prof. Hobbie also found a great discrepancy between the physics in papers in the biological research literature and the level of understanding of most biology majors or pre-med students who have taken a year of physics. It was clear that an intermediate level physics course would help these students. Prof. Hobbie developed such a course in 1973, which led to the publication of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology in 1978. This has become a standard textbook in the field, and Russ completed the fourth and fifth edition with Brad Roth after his retirement in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBradley J. Roth\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Clinton, Iowa in 1960, and was raised in Morrison, Illinois. He attended the University of Kansas, majoring in Physics (BS, 1982), and Vanderbilt University (MS, 1985; PhD, 1987). In graduate school, he worked in the Living State Physics Laboratory headed by John Wikswo. In 1988, Prof. Roth joined the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prof. Roth's research at NIH centered on three themes: cardiac electrophysiology, magnetic stimulation of nerves, and analysis of the electroencephalogram. From 1995 to 1998, he was the Robert T. Lagemann Assistant Professor of Living State Physics at Vanderbilt. In 1998, he accepted a position in the Department of Physics at Oakland University, where he taught until his retirement in 2020. In 2006, Prof. Roth was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division of Biological Physics). The citation reads: \"For his theoretical and numerical studies of bioelectric and biomagnetic phenomena, especially for his contributions to the bidomain model of the heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEugene Surdutovich\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1966. After finishing high school, he went to Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (BS, 1986 and MS, 1989). He moved to the US in 1992 and went to Wayne State University (PhD, 1998). Soon after graduation he changed his field from theoretical high-energy nuclear physics to experimental atomic physics. In 2006, he was invited to take part in a project devoted to ion-beam cancer therapy. Then, in co-authorship with A.V. Solovyov, he developed a multiscale approach to the assessment of radiation damage in tissue exposed to ion beams. The major advantage of that approach was the elaboration on the scenario of damage on physical, chemical, and biological scales. It was predicted that ion-induced shock waves play a significant role in this scenario separating the effect of linear energy transfer from the commonly accepted dose effect on the radiation damage. Prof. Surdutovich has been teaching at Oakland University since 2008. In particular, he has been teaching courses of Biological and Medical Physics based on the current book and he was particularly happy to be able to contribute his insight to the 6th edition of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 September 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032263216\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e683\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47722541449356,"sku":"9783032263216","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032263216.jpg?v=1781089182","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032263216","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}