Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

As December draws to a close and I reflect on all that’s happened over the last twelve months, I conclude that 2012 has been a good year. Fo...

With Christmas approaching, my attention naturally turns to the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures . The Royal Institution (Ri) website s...

Dynamics: The Geometry of Behavior , by Ralph Abraham and Christopher Shaw. When I was working at the National Institutes of Health in...

Theory of Sound , by Lord Rayleigh. I am a big fan of Victorian physicists. Among my heroes are Faraday , Maxwell , and Kelvin . Anoth...

In Problem 5 in Chapter 5 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I consider what happens if ...

Marie Curie (1867–1934) is one of the few scientists who received two Nobel Prizes : for Physics in 1903, and for Chemistry in 1911. Russ H...

I love sinograms . They are rare and fascinating mixtures of science and art, and often are quite beautiful. One should be able to look at a...

One of the greatest accomplishments of atomic physics is Neils Bohr ’s model for the structure of the hydrogen atom , and his prediction of ...

When Time Breaks Down , by Art Winfree. Ten years ago Art Winfree died. I’ve written about Winfree in this blog before (for example, s...

In Section 10.8 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the logistic map , a differ...