Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Readers of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology already know how important physics is to medicine. Now, subscribers to the famed B...

The Optics of Life: A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature , by Sonke Johnsen. I am currently reading The Optics of Life: A Biolog...

Factorials are used in many branches of mathematics and physics, and particularly in statistical mechanics . One often needs the natural lo...

Stokes’ law appears in Chapter 4 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Russ Hobbie and I write For a New...

I recently discovered iBioMagazine , which I highly recommend. The iBioMagazine website describes its goals. iBioMagazine offers a collect...

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...