Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Adrianus Kalmijn , a biophysicist known for his studies of electroreception in sharks , died December 7, 2021, at the age of 88. In Chapt...

Tonight is Christmas Eve.  At this time of the year, I think of the great English physicist Michael Faraday giving the Royal Institution Ch...

Russell Hobbie I am heartbroken to have to tell you that Russ Hobbie , my coauthor and friend, passed away this week, after a long battle wi...

Klee, M. (2014) Amer . J . Phys . 82:451-459. In Chapter 9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss how...

Physical Models of Living Systems, 2nd Edition, by Philip Nelson. In a 2015 blog post , I discussed Philip Nelson ’s then-new book Physical ...

The December, 2021 issue of the American Journal of Physics contains Resource Letter BP-1: Biological Physics (Volume 89, Pages 1071–1078)...

When Death Becomes Life , by Joshua Mezrich. In last week’s post, I told you about a book I didn’t like . This week, I’ll tell you about o...

The Body Electric , By Robert Becker and Gary Selden Go to www.amazon.com and look up the best selling book in the category “ biophysics ...

This week Biophysics Reviews published my article “ Bidomain Modeling of Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Cardiac Tissue ” (Volume 2...

Suppose you’re reading Homework Problem 4 in Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and you run across the phrase “If ...