Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Physics With Illustrative Examples From Medicine and Biology , Volume 3, by Benedek and Villars. This is the third and final entry in ...

Physics With Illustrative Examples From Medicine and Biology , Volume 2, by Benedek and Villars. Last week I discussed volume 1 of Be...

Physics With Illustrative Examples From Medicine and Biology , Volume 1, by Benedek and Villars. One early textbook that served as a p...

Two competing devices are used in airports to obtain full-body images of passengers: backscatter x-ray scanners and millimeter wave scanner...

Yesterday, August 30, was the 100-year anniversary of the birth of physicist Edward Purcell (1912–1997). Purcell appears several times in t...

From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life , by Leon Glass and Michael Mackey. In Chapter 10 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics...

I have always found electromagnetic units confusing. There are just so many of them, and it is difficult to keep them all straight. Russ Hob...

I’m obsessed with citations. I realize citation analysis has its limits, but it provides an objective way to measure the impact of a publica...

The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology begins in Chapter 1 with a discussion of biomechanics . Of course, biomech...

The CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations , by Frank Netter. When I started graduate school at Vanderbilt University , I had a stro...