Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Russ Hobbie and I like to use the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology to illustrate modeling . But rarely d...

For the last six months, I’ve been the Michigan Representative of the volunteer group Grandparents For Vaccines . Our group’s mission is to ...

Mathematical Physiology , by Keener and Sneyd. James Keener died in April. He was a biomathematician who worked at the University of Utah ...

Using Math in Physics: 4. Toy Models, by Joe Redish .  In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce many ...

Elective MRI Screening of the  General Public—Buyer Beware. I saw an article by Matthew Davenport and Scott Reeder published recently in J...

What’s the best order to watch the Star War movies? Aficionados have been arguing about this for years. (In fact, this debate raged before...

Recently, there has been a brouhaha about “Ghost Murmur,” a proposed way to detect the magnetic field of a human heart from miles away. I wa...

Evangelista Torricelli.  In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the units of pressure . ...

Henry Oldenburg. I’ve had many research articles published in scientific journals, and each one of them was peer reviewed . This means the j...

Russ Hobbie and I discuss the electrical behavior of the heart in Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We focus a l...