Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Edward “Joe” Redish , a University of Maryland physics professor, died August 24 of cancer. Joe has been mentioned many times in this blog...

The Song of the Dodo , by David Quammem . One of my favorite science writers is David Quammen . I’ve discussed several of his books in this ...

Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? This Wednesday will be the 100th anniversary of Robert Adair ’s birth. I wrote a blog post about A...

Roth and Gielen, Annals of Biomedical Engineering , Volume 15, Pages 591–602, 1987 Today I want to tell you how Frans Gielen and I wrote th...

I’m a big Alan Alda fan. As a teenager, I would watch him each week as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H . Besides being an actor, Alda also had a...

In this blog, I talk a lot about topics discussed in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Almost as interesting is what topics ar...

Wednesday was the 100th anniversary of Robert Plonsey ’s birth. He is one of the most highly cited authors in Intermediate Physics for Medic...

The Taylor series is particularly useful for analyzing how functions behave in limiting cases. This is essential when translating a mathemat...

In Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I briefly discuss depth of field : the distance between th...

In Chapter 13 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the attenuation of sound . Water transmits soun...