Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

The usual way to find the time constant  τ  of a nerve axon is to use various stimuli S ( t ) of different durations, and then fit the data ...

Russ Hobbie and I describe the bidomain model of cardiac tissue in Section 7.9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The bid...

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

Sometimes a toy model (a simple model that strips away all the detail to expose the underlying mechanisms more clearly) can be useful. Toda...

One of the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Problem 31 in Chapter 16) introduces a toy model for the Br...

One strength of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is its many homework problems. The problems stress (but perhaps not enough) t...

Want a sneak peek at one of the new homework problems tentatively included in the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biolo...

The Song of the Dodo , by David Quammem . One of my favorite science writers is David Quammen . I’ve discussed several of his books in this ...