Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In Chapter 13 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss imaging using ultrasound . On...

Physical Models of Living Systems , by Philip Nelson. Philip Nelson has a new textbook that came out earlier this year: Physical Mode...

Angles are measured in radians , but solid angles are measured in steradians . Russ Hobbie and I discuss solid angles in Appendix A of the ...

Oakland University , where I work, has an ADVANCE grant from the National Science Foundation , with the goal of increasing the representati...

Tomography is one of the most important contributions of mathematics to medicine. In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine a...

When I teach, one of my goals is to help students analyze a mathematical equation to uncover the underlying physics. Equations are not merel...

I saw an article on the internet claiming “ If you want healthy cows feed them magnets ” and I thought “oh no, not more biomagnetism nonsens...

When I was working at the National Institutes of Health in the mid-1990s, I spent most of my time studying transcranial magnetic stimulatio...

Recently, my wife and I went to the theater to see The Imitation Game , about Alan Turing and the breaking of the enigma code during World...

The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains thousands of equations. One of them, Equation 15.22, gives the cr...