Physics For The Life Sciences

Preface Part One: The Mechanics of Biological Systems Chapter 1: Physics and the Life Sciences Chapter 2: Kinematics Chapter 3: Forces Chapter 4: Biomechanics Chapter 5: Centre of Mass and Linear Momentum Chapter 6: Kinesiology Part Two: Energy, Biochemistry and Transport Phenomena Chapter 7: Energy and its Conservation Chapter 8: Gases Chapter 9: Work and Heat For Non-Mechanical Systems Chapter 10: Thermodynamics Chapter 11: Transport of Energy and Matter Chapter 12: Static Fluids Chapter 13: Fluid Flow Part Three: Vibrations, Acoustics and Hearing Chapter 14: Elasticity and Vibrations Chapter 15: The Ear and Communication Chapter 16: Sound Absorption, Transmission Part Four: Electrical Phenomena Chapter 17: Electric Force and Field Chapter 18: Electric Energy and Potential Chapter 19: The Flow of Charges Chapter 20: The Atom Part Five: Atomic, Electromagnetic and Optical Phenomena Chapter 21: Magnetism and Electromagnetic Waves Chapter 22: Geometric Optics Chapter 23: X-Rays Chapter 24: The Atomic Nucleus Part Six: Applied Clinical Physics Chapter 25: Nuclear Medicine Chapter 26: Radiation Therapy Chapter 27: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Martin Zinke-Allmang studied Physics and Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After completing his Ph.D. thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, he moved to New Jersey for a Post-doctoral fellowship at AT&T Bell Laboratories and later settled at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, where he currently teaches first year Physics. He has published more than 80 scientific articles, including two major review articles in Surface Science Reports and Thin Solid Films. He has supervised more than 25 M.Sc., Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows, most recently in the Graduate program in Medical Biophysics. Eduardo Galiano-Riveros Born and raised in Asuncion, Paraguay, South America, where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. He went on to pursue university studies in the U.S., where he obtained a B.S. (1983) and M.S. (1985) degrees in physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. At around that time, he decided to pursue a career in medical physics and obtained an M.S. degree (1987) in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervison of the late Prof. Herbert Attix. He returned to Paraguay where he worked as a clinical medical physicist at the National Cancer Hospital (1988 - 1992), when he accepted a fellowship at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX to pursue Ph.D. studies, which he completed in 1995. He returned to Paraguay to resume his clincal career at the National Cancer Hospital, and with a group of radiation oncologists set up a private radiotherapy clinic in Asuncion. He spent an academic year (1998 - 1999) at the University of Osaka, Japan, as a visiting scientist. In 2003, he accepted an offer to join the faculty at the Physics Department at Laurentian University, in Sudbury, Ontario, where he is presently a tenured professor. While at Laurentian University, he has publsihed some 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and has supervised the M.Sc. theses of