Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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...

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,...