Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In my more contemplative moments, I sometimes ponder: who am I? Or perhaps better: what am I? In my personal life I am many things: son, hus...

Molybdenum-99 for Medical Imaging , published by the National Academies Press. Between 2007 and 2011, I wrote several blog posts about...

Mathematical Physiology , by James Keener and James Sneyd. In a comment to the blog last week, Frankie mentioned the two-volume textboo...

Last year I wrote a blog post about learning biology , aimed at physicists who wanted an introduction to biological ideas. Today, let’s supp...

dGEMRIC is an acronym for delayed gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of cartilage . Adil Bashir and his colleagues provide a cle...

The Nuts and Bolts of Life: Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Kidney Machine , by Paul Heiney. In Chapter 5 of Intermediate Physi...

Classical Electrodynamics , 3rd Ed, by John David Jackson. John David Jackson died on May 20 of this year. I am familiar with Jackson ...

Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences , by Philip Bevington and Keith Robinson. In Chapter 11 of Intermediate Ph...

Chapter 6 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses nerve electrophysiology . In particular, Russ Hobbie and I derive the...

In Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I describe magnetotactic bacteria . Several species of ba...