Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Important advances in fluorescence microscopy highlight the interaction of physics and biology. This effort is led by Eric Betzig of Berke...

In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I cite two volumes of the Berkeley Physics Course : Volume II about ele...

Reading Atomic Accidents , by Jim Mahaffey, in my home office. The Oakland University library has online access to the book Atomic Ac...

How did neuroradiologists image the brain before the invention of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging ? They used a form o...

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...