Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

One of the most important mathematical techniques for a physicist is the Fourier series . I discussed Joseph Fourier , the inventor of this ...

Entropy and its role in the Second Law of Thermodynamics is one of the fundamental ideas of all science. One can think of entropy roughly ...

Electricity and Magnetism , 3rd Edition, by Edward Purcell and David Morin. I have always enjoyed Edward Purcell ’s textbook Electrici...

I am one of the coauthors on a paper published recently that analyzes how to determine properties of a cardiac wave front from measurements ...

A few months ago, the journal CBE—Life Sciences Education published a special issue about education at the intersection of physics and biol...

My Ideal Bookshelf , by Thessaly La Force, with artwork by Jane Mount. While browsing at the library recently, I ran across the book ...

I like to use this blog to remind readers of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology about upcoming events they mi...

The tobacco mosaic virus. Table 4.2 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains list of various partic...

One of the fundamental ideas of nuclear physics is the isotope . In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ...

From Neuron to Brain , by Stephen Kuffler and John Nicholls. In 1982, when I was accepted into graduate school at Vanderbilt University...