Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I don’t talk about homeopathy (thank goodness!). A homeopathic medicine...

Paul Maccabee (1944–2023). Photo used with permission from the Downstate Health Sciences University website . My friend and collaborator Pau...

Congress is currently considering the “ Connect Our Parks Act .” It is a bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an assess...

This Sunday is the 120th anniversary of the birth of American physicist Philip Morse (1903–1985). Russ Hobbie and I mention Morse in Chapt...

John Moulder , from Khurana et al. (2008) Med. Phys. , 35:5203, with permission from Wiley . John Moulder, a leading expert in radiation bio...

Today I want to talk to high school students who, when they attend college, might be majoring in biological physics . What does a biological...

Want a short course in vector calculus? You can find one in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Divergence The divergence is ...

Have you ever been reading a book, making good progress with everything making sense, and then you suddenly stop at say “wait… what?”. That ...

The Age of Napoleon , by Will and Ariel Durant , Volume 11 of The Story of Civilization . Regular readers of this blog may recall that over ...

Any good undergrad statistical mechanics class analyzes the partition function . However, Russ Hobbie and I don’t introduce the partition ...