Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

As Gene Surdutovich and I were preparing the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we decided to update the discus...

Everything Is Tuberculosis , by John Green. Recently I read the current bestseller Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence o...