Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Homework Problem 33 in Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is about Murray’s law , a relationship...

While I have many goals when writing this blog (with the top being to sell textbooks!), sometimes I simply like to point out useful websites...

A couple months ago I went to Bethesda , Maryland to review grant proposals for the National Institutes of Health . They swear us to secrecy...

The Mathematics of Diffusion , by John Crank. Diffusion is one of those topics that is rarely covered in an introductory physics class...

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...