Homework-0: History.

  1. There was a great deal of press coverage about the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine centered around Dr. Robert Damadian. Please summarize this coverage. Evaluate and reference the contributions of Lauterbur, Mansfield, and Damadian to the field of MRI. Comment on the press ocverage. [You will need to look beyond the text.] Based on your research, Who invented MRI?"
  2. Using your favorite plotting package, make a plot of the following functions between t=0 amd t=1 second where x is a constant equal to 0.2 s.
    Y=exp(-t/x)
    Y=1-exp(-t/x)
    Y=1-2exp(-t/x)
  3. Write 60,000,000 Hz in terms of megahertz and killohertz.
    Write 1.95 meters in kilometers, centimeters, and millimeters.
  4. What is the magnitude of the Earth's magnetic field in both Gauss and Tesla in Rochester, NY?
  5. Given that M = Mo(1 - 2e-t/TI), what is the value of TI when M=0?
  6. If V1=5 volts and V2=0.2 volts, V2 is how many dB less than V1?
  7. What is the product of two cosine waves of frequencies n1 and n2?
  8. What is the result of multiplying the following vector by the matrix?

  9. Show that [Cos(x) + iSin(x)] [Cos(y) + iSin(y)] = Cos(x+y) + iSin(x+y).