Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Max Planck is one of the founders of quantum mechanics , and the fundamental constant governing all quantum phenomena bears his name. His h...

Therapeutic touch is a “healing technique” in which a therapist places their hands near a patient and detects or manipulates the patient’s ...

This week I finished up my PHY 530 class (Bioelectric Phenomena), which I discussed once before in this blog. Rather than adopting a textbo...

Galileo's Daughter , by Dava Sobel. As is my habit, I listen to recorded books when I walk my dog Suki each day. Recently, I listen...

Russ Hobbie and I included a new chapter on sound and ultrasound in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . In t...

I subscribe to a monthly magazine, The Scientist , which was founded by Eugene Garfield (who also was a founder of the Science Citation Ind...

The American Physical Society publishes a monthly newspaper, the APS News , and the back page of each issue contains an editorial that goes...

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom , by Graham Farmelo. I recently read The Strangest Man: The Hidd...

Section 8.9 in the 4th Edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology describes how a toroidal probe can be used to measure the m...