The Page Proofs are Here!!!

The page proofs for the sixth edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology have arrived, and they’ve taken over my life. I’ve got no time for much of anything else, including writing blog posts. My coauthor Gene Surdutovich and I are trying hard to fix all the errors, but man oh man is there a lot to check. The pdf of the proofs has about 580 pages, whereas the 5th edition had more like 650 (from title page to end of the index). So the book is down about 7% in number of pages. That’s good, because we cut out a lot of what we rarely teach in our classes. That decrease is even more impressive when you consider that we added a chapter on surface tension, we added a chapter on damage from ionizing radiation, and we split the chapter on feedback and nonlinear dynamics into two. In addition, readers now have over 1000 homework problems to test their understanding. So, really, we cut at least 10% from the chapter text present in the fifth edition.

That’s all for now, but just let me add a big thank you to all the readers of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. And let me assure you traditionalists out there that there’s still a lot of Russ Hobbie here in the sixth edition. It’s still his book, and he’s still first author.