Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Next month, Russ Hobbie and I will receive the page proofs for the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . I welcome...

Many physicists have shifted their research to biology, but rarely do we learn how they make this transition or, more importantly, why. But ...

In the comments to last week’s blog entry , Frankie asks if there is a way to “safely, reversibly block nerve conduction (first in the lab, ...

When I was a graduate student, my mentor John Wikswo assigned to me the job of measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon . This experim...

Dropping a feather and a ball in a vacuum to show that they fall at the same rate is a classic physics demonstration. We have a version of t...

The Medical College Admission Test , famously known as the MCAT, is an exam taken by students applying to medical school. The Association of...

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field , by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon. Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell are two o...

In Chapter 1 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the Reynolds number . The im...

In Section 14.9 (Blue and Ultraviolet Radiation) of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I di...

Section 14.7 (Thermal Radiation) of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains one of my favorite illustrati...