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...

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 ...

“ 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...