Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Solutions Manual)

By Russell K. Hobbie and Bradley J. Roth

Book Overview

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...be provided in sufficient numbers and convenient for the workmen to wash easily and rapidly. Good water-closets, self-operating, well warmed in cold weather, and so connected with the shops that the men need not go into the cold to reach them, should be attached in proper number to each shop. They will require an attendant, who may also do sweeping and other chores. Shops and wash rooms and water-closets should SHOP COMFORTS. 7$ all be well ventilated, which can be accomplished, with hardly any expense, by carrying up flues in the piers and walls with openings into the rooms near the floors, and occasionally also near the roofs. These flues become frequently of great convenience, when there is occasion to set up a stove or a hand forge, temporarily, in an unexpected place. Probably there is nothing so important and which costs so little, which has also been so much neglected in buildings of all kinds, as the provision of flues for ventilation. Large shops should have suitable ventilators also in the roofs; but they will not be allowed to be open much in winter. There is a common opinion that high roofs and lofty rooms are more easily ventilated than low ones, which is contrary to the facts, for ventilation is accomplished by establishing currents of different temperatures. This is more readily effected in a small space than in a greater. A large passenger shed presents a good example flf the difficulty of ventilating wide and high.spaces, if the persistency with which any smoke from engines remains in it is observed. Almost all lifting about shops which requires nore than the strength of one man should be done by cranes or hoists, for the interest on the cost of such will not usually amount to another mans wages; where machinery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471828521
• ISBN13: 9780471828525
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Great Textbook for Medical Physics

This is an ideal textbook for an introductory level medical physics/biomedical engineering course for juniors and seniors. When I used this textbook to teach an introductory level medical physics class, I found it to be rich in biological and medical materials, and hardly referred my students to other textbooks. It includes most of the derivations that students need to know and plenty of problems for them. The authors have done a great service for the students by explaining required physics concepts in the textbook.

A must KEEP for physicists working in biology!

Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, 4th Edition (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) has proven to be a most useful tool in crossing the lines between physics and biology. As a recent graduate of Medical Physics now doing a postdoc with MD's, I find myself reaching for some section of it time and time again; both to help me understand their perspective as well as to better communicate mine. It is not only a must have, it is a MUST KEEP!

A must-read for physicists interested in biology

Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) is now in its fourth edition, and gets better every time. This is the ideal starting place for biologists who need to use physics to explain something biological or physiological, or physicists who want to apply quantitative physics theories or techniques to biological phenomena or delve into medical or biological physics. The derivations and illustrations are clear and useful, and the book provides detailed explanations rather than just decreeing the applicable equation for a particular phenomenon. The rich set of problems makes it an ideal textbook for physics or biomedical engineering or quantitative biology; the breadth of the material makes it a wonderful reference book.