Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Last week in this blog I talked briefly about bursting in pancreatic beta cells . A bursting cell fires several action potential spikes co...

I enjoy taking a scientific paper and reducing it to a homework problem. For example, one of the new homework problems in the 4th edition of...

This month marks the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity . An article in the magazine IEEE Spectrum states On Ap...

In one of my first entries in this blog , I introduced readers to the Point/Counterpoint articles in the journal Medical Physics . I enjoy t...

Because of the scary events at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, the health hazards of radiation is in the news a lot. One place I t...

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism , by James Clerk Maxwell. I am a big James Clerk Maxwell fan. In fact, I have made my living ...

I have written previously on the topic of cell phone electromagnetic radiation and cancer, but the issue remains a concern among the genera...

Are laser pointers safe? Apparently, it depends on the laser pointer. A recent article by Christine Negroni in the New York Times (Feb. ...

The current issue of the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine contains a minireview about “ The Role of Magnetic Forces in Biology and...

The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains a list of fundamental constants in Appendix O. Russ Hobbie and I...