Intermediate Practical Physics

Practical Physics

Practical Physics for Articulated Characters

This presentation describes a set of techniques for implementing a fast and stable dynamics simulator for articulated characters using an analytical constraint approach combined with Featherstone’s linear-time forward dynamics algorithm. It presents an efficient method for enforcing multiple simultaneous constraints on an articulated character in order to control the character’s motion and mode...

Medical physics: the perfect intermediate level physics class

Medical physics is currently a rapidly growing field of physics. Numerous academic, clinical and industrial opportunities are open to physicists in the medical world. I report on an intermediate level physics course on medical physics taught at Carleton College. The topics covered in this course cover all areas of physics, but with examples drawn from medical applications. In addition to physic...

Physics, Technology and Practical Considerations

Screen-film image receptors have been the standard detector used in conventional mammography. New developments in detector technology and computers are altering the landscape of mammography imaging. Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) offers the promise of revolutionizing the practice of mammography through its superior dose and contrast performance. Advanced applications made possible throug...

Physics Revealed at Intermediate p T

A review is given on the subject of hadron production at intermediate pT in heavy-ion collisions. The underlying dynamical processes are inferred from interpreting the data in the framework of recombination. Ridge formation with or without triggers is found to play an important role in nearly all observables in that pT region. Correlation data would be hard to interpret without taking ridges in...