Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Alexander Pope I mentioned before in this blog that I’m reading Will and Ariel Durant’s eleven-volume masterpiece The Story of Civilizati...

The Invisible Rainbow , by Arthur Firstenberg. Over Christmas break, I read The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life , by Ar...

Physics , by Halliday and Resnick. Robert Resnick , physics textbook author extraordinaire, was born 100 years ago last Wednesday (January 1...

Edith Anne Stoney Today is Edith Anne Stoney ’s birthday; she was born on January 6, 1869. In an article that appeared in the December, 2013...

When I worked at the National Institutes of Health , I studied transcranial magnetic stimulation . In Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for ...

I encourage students to build their qualitative problem solving skills by recasting equations in dimensionless variables, analyzing the lim...

Mark Hallett Last Monday I attended (over the internet) a Festschrift to honor the retirement of Mark Hallett from the intramural program ...

Air and Water , by Mark Denny . In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I don’t talk much about surface tension ...

When discussing the attenuation of sound in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I write In acoustics, the att...

In Section 14.4 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss molecular energy levels . In particular, we e...