Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Allan was born in Johannesburg , the youngest of three children. He spent his teenage years in Cape Town , and was interested in debating, t...

Numerical Methods That Work , by Forman Acton. The American computer scientist Forman Acton died ten years ago this Sunday. In Intermediate...

Robert Adair. Photo credit: Michael Marsland / Yale University . I try to write obituaries of scientists who appear in Intermediate Physics ...

“Havana Syndrome”: A Post Mortem, by Bartholomew and Baloh. Remember the Havana Syndrome ? You don’t hear much about it anymore. Recently I ...

I just learned that my friend Craig Henriquez passed away last summer. Craig earned his PhD at Duke University in their Department of Bio...

Last week, the plug door panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max airplane detached during flight, leaving a gaping hole in the side of ...

In Chapter 2 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss log-log plots . Have you ever wondered who made t...

Cell Mechanics . In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss ideal solids and ideal liquids. ...

Electricity and Magnetism , by Edward Purcell. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I rarely discuss special...

A few weeks ago, I published a blog post about the television show Meeting of Minds . That show from the late 1970s was created and hosted ...