Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Russ Hobbie and I don’t talk much about viruses in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The closest we come is in Chapter 1, wh...

Chaos: Making a New Science , by James Gleick . With the coronavirus keeping me home, I have been reading Chaos: Making a New Science ...

Two months ago—starting March 16 when the coronavirus pandemic closed down in-person classes at Oakland University , where I teach—I began ...

Yesterday’s post led me to reflect on how Russ Hobbie and I describe the potassium conductance of a nerve membrane in Chapter 6 of Interme...

Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley published a series of five papers in the Journal of Physiology that explained the nerve action potential ....

From Page 472 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology: The Barium Enema Bari...

The first movement of the Moonlight Sonata ,  Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor, Opus 27 No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven . Jonathan Biss despise...

Radon Action Month Proclamation by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer . Governor Whitmer declared last January to be Radon Action Mo...

When I was in a teenager, I played a lot of ping pong . It was the sport that I played best (which isn’t saying much) and loved most (ex...

Radiation Oncology: A Physicist's-Eye View , by Michael Goitein. In an earlier post, I mentioned Michael Goitein textbook Radiation...