Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, October 3, 2025

Trident Production

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The Study of Elementary Particles by the Photographic Method. In the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hob...
Friday, September 26, 2025

The Dollar and Dime Game

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Most mornings I take a walk to keep myself in shape. Usually I listen to an audiobook while walking, but for some reason my earbuds didn’t r...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Maxwell's Spot

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One of my scientific heroes is James Clerk Maxwell . Maxwell (1831–1879) was a Scottish physicist known for developing Maxwell’s equations ...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Why Are There So Few Aerial Plankton?

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Air and Water , by Mark Denny . In his book Air and Water , Mark Denny asks an oddball question: Why are there so few aerial plankton? In ...
Friday, September 5, 2025

Does Stokes’ Law Hold for a Bubble?

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In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Stokes’ law . When a small sphere, of radius a , moves with sp...
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Friday, August 29, 2025

Approximate Analytical Solutions of the Bidomain Equations for Electrical Stimulation of Cardiac Tissue With Curving Fibers

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Russ Hobbie and I stress qualitative thinking, in addition to quantitative thinking, in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Wha...
Friday, August 22, 2025

The Cardiac Bidomain Model in Twelve Publications

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Recently I wrote a review of the bidomain model of cardiac tissue . Russ Hobbie and I discuss the bidomain model in Section 7.9 of Interm...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Lutetium-177

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When preparing the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , I like to scan the literature for new medical advances. Wh...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Push Back Hard

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Last November, right after the Presidential election, I wrote a blog post about trusted information on public health . In that post, I featu...
Friday, August 1, 2025

The History of the Linear No-Threshold Model and Recommendations for a Path Forward

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As Gene Surdutovich and I were preparing the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we decided to update the discus...
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
I am an emeritus professor of physics at Oakland University, and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. The purpose of this blog is specifically to support and promote my textbook, and in general to illustrate applications of physics to medicine and biology.
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