Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

“The Magnetic Field of a Single Axon.” Thirty years ago, John Wikswo and I published “ The Magnetic Field of a Single Axon: A Compariso...

I occasionally like to write a new homework problem as a gift to the readers of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Here is the ...

Last week in this blog I discussed why dolphins don’t breathe through gills like fish do. The take-home message was that using gills wou...

Flipper. I grew up watching the TV show Flipper , about a dophin . These curious creatures are mammals so they are warm blooded, but th...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , and Magnetic Resonance Imaging have resulted in Nobel Prizes to eight famo...

Figure 17.27 in the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology shows the decay series arising from the radioactive isoto...

Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology , by Isaac Asimov. In Chapter 3 of the 5th edition of Intermediate Physic...

In Chapter 17 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a new homework problem to the 5th edition about th...

Suppose you are a physicist, mathematician, or engineer who wants to change your research direction toward biology and medicine. How do yo...

Art Winfree was a pioneer in applying physics and mathematics to cardiac electrophysiology . Russ Hobbie and I cite him often in the 5th e...