Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

This fall, I am teaching PHY 325, Biological Physics, at Oakland University . Of course, the textbook is the 4th edition of Intermediate Phy...

From the Preface. The Fourth Edition [of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology ] follows the tradition of earlier editions. The b...

Powers of Ten , by Philip and Phylis Morrison, and the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. One of my favorite books is Powers of Ten by ...

On Being the Right Size , by J. B. S. Haldane. Problem 28 of Chapter 2 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biol...

The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains 44% more homework problems than did the 3rd Edition. What are som...

The American Institute of Physics has a website for the public called PhysicsCentral ( http://www.physicscentral.com ). The purpose of the...

Niels Bohr's Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity , by Abraham Pais. Last week , I discussed the book Niels Bohr's Times...

Niels Bohr’s Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity , by Abraham Pais. Recently I finished reading the biography Niels Bohr’s Time...

My research involves computer simulations, so I spend a lot of time implementing numerical algorithms. I view a numerical technique as a too...

Physicist Playing Cards. Last Christmas, my daughter Katherine gave me a unique and fascinating present: Physicist Playing Cards. Each c...