Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

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Action potential propagation along a myelinated nerve axon is often said to occur by “ saltatory conduction .” The 4th edition of Interme...

Henry Moseley is an English physicist who developed x-ray methods to assign a unique atomic number Z to each element . He appears in Prob...

Glimpses of Creatures in their Physical Worlds , by Steven Vogel. I have recently finished reading Steven Vogel ’s book Glimpses of Cr...

It’s time to catch up on topics discussed previously in this blog. The Technetium-99m Shortage Several times I have written about the Te...

Last week, Oakland University had the honor of hosting James Keener , Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah . H...

Last week I was in the hospital with pneumonia . I’m fine now, thank you, but I was there three days, and last week’s blog entry was posted ...

Section 2.7 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is titled Decay Plus Input at a Constant Rate. When I taugh...

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens occurs this week (he was born February 7, 1812). I am a big Dickens fan, so I had to...

Over the Christmas break I was browsing through the Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler: Visiting Physics and Chemistry Sites Across Ame...