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Answers to Health Physics HW3 now available September 4, 2007

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The answers to HW3 on Light and Sight are attached.

Answers to HW3 - Light & Sight

Cancer treatment by Chemotherapy September 2, 2007

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We don’t need to cover chemotherapy as part of the Standard Grade Phyics course but I thought you might be interested in how it works, now that we have looked at the use of Radiotherapy.  The attached pdf file contains some notes on chemotherapy taken from the CancerHelp UK website.

Chemotherapy notes

S4 - laser eye correction August 20, 2007

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We’ve been looking at the various uses for lasers in surgey, including the correction of eyesight.  I found this site that shows how one company does this in their clinic.  The animation does  a pretty good job of explaining the procedure.