Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

This week we lost a giant of engineering: Wilson Greatbatch , inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker . The cardiac pacemaker repres...

In Chapter 7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mention an optical technique that is u...

The American Physical Society has an online journal, Physics , with the goal of making recent research accessible to a wide audience. The j...

In Chapter 12 of the 4th Edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce the Radon transformation . ...

Last week’s blog entry discussed Fresnel diffraction , which Russ Hobbie and I analyzed in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Med...

In Section 13.7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the medical uses of ultraso...

Last week’s blog entry was about the Gouy-Chapman model for a charged double layer at an electrode surface. The model is based on the Pois...

Sometimes when I am studying physics, I run across a model or equation with names attached to it, and I wonder “just who are these people?” ...

Mathematical Biology , by James Murray. In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discus...

In the opening section of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I provide a table of common pr...