Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In Section 5.7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , where Russ Hobbie and I discuss the artificial kidney ...

Glimpses of Creatures in their Physical Worlds , by Steven Vogel. I am a loyal member of Sigma Xi , the Scientific Research Society, a...

Last week in this blog I discussed the greatest physicist of all time, Isaac Newton . However, if we narrow consideration to only experimen...

Arguably the greatest physicist of all time (and probably the greatest scientist of all time) is Isaac Newton (1643–1727). Newton is so fam...

The New England Journal of Medicine is arguably the premier medical journal in the world. Russ Hobbie is a regular reader, and he sometime...

On page 181 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce Legendre polynomials . The Le...

Apparently, dear reader, I am still obsessed by my trip to Paris last summer, because this will be the third week in a row that this blog h...

The August 2010 issue of Physics Today , published by the American Institute of Physics , contains an article by T. N. Narasimhan about “ T...

Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains an analysis of the flow of a viscous fluid through a...

In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I quote the article “ Don’t Throw Away th...