Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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 ...

“ Can the Microwave Auditory Effect be Weaponized?” I was recently reading Ken Foster , David Garrett , and Marvin Ziskin ’s paper “ Can the...

Electricity and Magnetism , by Edward Purcell. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I rarely discuss special...

A Paramecium aurelia seen through an optical microscope. Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paramecium.jpg) Homework Pr...

In Problem 14 of Chapter 7 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I chose a strange-looking function to repre...

I encourage students to build their qualitative problem solving skills by recasting equations in dimensionless variables, analyzing the lim...

In Table 13.1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I list the approximate intensity levels of various sounds,...

In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss biomechanics . One of our most important examples...

In Appendix H of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I briefly mention the severe lung disease cystic fibrosis ...

The Mathematics of Diffusion , by John Crank. Homework Problem 27 in Chapter 4 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology examines d...

When I was measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon in graduate school, I wondered if I should worry about a nerve’s inductance . Put a...

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . In last week’s blog post , I told you about the recent death of Howard Berg , author of Random Wa...

Sometimes proponents of pseudoscience embrace nonsense, but other times they propose plausible-sounding ideas that are wrong because the nu...