Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Russ Hobbie and I discuss thermodynamics in Chapter 3 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We take a stat...

The electrocardiogram , or ECG, is one of the most common and useful tools for diagnosing heart arrhythmias . Russ Hobbie and I discuss the...

The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention , by Wilson Greatbatch. I’m still thinking about Wilson Greatbatch , o...

Problem 17 in Chapter 5 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology considers a countercurrent heat exchanger . Cou...

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...