Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce a concept from fluid dynamics called the bound...

If you shine x-rays through a material and measure the number absorbed by it, you create an x-ray absorption spectrum . The absorption is r...

The Art of Electronics , by Horowitz and Hill . Nine years ago I wrote in this blog about the second edition of Horowtiz and Hill’s textboo...

The Last Man Who Knew Everything , by Andrew Robinson. Almost ten years ago in this blog , I speculated about who was the greatest biologica...

Grimes DR (2021) Radiofrequency Radiation and Cancer, JAMA Oncology , 8:456–461. In my book Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? I dis...

This week I belatedly learned that Mike Joy died. This was sad news indeed. Joy was a Canadian electrical engineer who measured current den...

Drawdown , Edited by Paul Hawken . This blog is about physics applied to medicine and biology, but if we don’t solve the climate crisis the...

“Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap...

A homework problem in Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology states Problem 28 . Integrate Eq. 14.33 over all wavelen...

When I was at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1990s, I worked on transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain. In Chapter...