From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Nov 28 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!agate!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.xcom.net!news.shore.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.warwick.net!news From: Alpha Word Systems Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: biophysics paper Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 09:44:06 -0500 Organization: Alpha Word Systems Lines: 42 Message-ID: <36615DB6.46A1@warwick.net> References: <3660C628.5EC7@warwick.net> <01be1b60$c24d2a80$5d0ed9cf@TheDaniel> Reply-To: alphawrd@warwick.net NNTP-Posting-Host: f221-13.warwick.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-KIT (Win95; U) Yay! A reply! To tell you the truth, this dilemma is all my fault, considering my 10-source bibliography is due on Wednesday. (In case you were wondering, I'm only a high school senior.) I'm scrambling to get ANYTHING now that I can document; however, this seems a little difficult. I'm kind of out of time, but thanks for your help! Alison k wrote: > > Alpha Word Systems wrote in article > <3660C628.5EC7@warwick.net>... > > I have been looking for a good reference on the internet to give me > > information on the physics of bones and fractures. If anyone knows > > where to look PLEASE help me!! > > > Until this year, I helped teach an introductory physics > course for life sciences students which was *heavily* > biological in it's perspective. Since there were no satisfactory > texts available, one of the professors in the physics > department here aat UCLA wrote a text for the course. > We teach statics in the course, and of course we cover > bone breaking and fracturing in it. > > Would an introductory level text help, or would > that be at too low a level for what you want? If > you think it would be useful, I'll try to find out if > the text has been published yet (last year it was > still inn the beta test stage, but the goal at that > time was to have it out this year). > > Cheers, > > Kevin -- Best Regards, Melinda Decker President, Alpha Word Systems www.medicaltranscription.com .