Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Life in Moving Fluids , by Steven Vogel. Steven Vogel died on Tuesday. He was the author of several excellent books about the interfac...

When teaching PHY 325 (Biological Physics) this fall, I assigned my students homework from the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medic...

When working on the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a new homework problem about lo...

In my last blog entry , I began the story behind “ The Magnetic Field of a Single Axon: A Comparison of Theory and Experiment ” ( Biophysica...

“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...