Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Union Station. I posted the last two entries in this blog while on a trip to Kansas City to visit my parents. I didn’t grow up in the K...

Ten years ago, at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference in New York City, I presented a paper titled “ How...

The Olympics are in full swing this week, giving us in the United States a brief respite from our nasty presidential campaign. As you might...

“Zapping Their Brains at Home,” by Anna Wexler. A couple weeks ago, Anna Wexler published an article in the New York Times titled “ Z...

In Chapter 15 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the interaction of charged particles with electr...

Chapter 3 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses the Boltzmann factor . In the homework exercises at the end of the cha...

I have always wondered about those funny-looking collections of different-sized, different-colored words: the word cloud . This week I learn...

Cell Biology by the Numbers, by Ron Milo and Rob Phillips. Six years ago I wrote an entry in this blog about the bionumbers website. ...

In Section 14.8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss blackbody radiation . Our analysis is similar ...

In the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I added a section on the chemostat . 2.6  The Chemo...