Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, March 28, 2025

The Rest of the Story 5

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Bill grew up in Schenectady , New York, the youngest of four children. While a child he became interested in science because of his fascinat...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Dipole-Dipole Interaction

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One strength of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is its many homework problems. The problems stress (but perhaps not enough) t...
Friday, March 14, 2025

The First Measurement of the Magnetocardiogram

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Biomagnetism: The First Sixty Years. A couple years ago, I published a review article titled “ Biomagnetism: The First Sixty Years . ” I ...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Einstein and Smoluchowski

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In Chapter 4 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the Einstein relationship between diffusion and...
Friday, February 28, 2025

My Final Question

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Suppose I died tomorrow. When my soul came before that great scientist in the sky, she might say “because of your contributions to Intermedi...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Quackwatch

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One goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is to provide readers with an understanding of the physics underlying biomedicin...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Sine and Cosine Integrals and the Delta Function

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Trigger warning : This post is for mature audiences only; it may contain Fourier transforms and Dirac delta functions .  In Chapter 11 of I...
Friday, February 7, 2025

The Air They Breathe

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I’m used to thinking about climate change from a physics perspective: what technologies can we use to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide a...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism

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Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism , by Peter Hotez . I recently listened to an audio recording of Peter Hotez ’s book Vaccines Did Not ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

The Physics of Butterflies

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Marilyn Trent (the founder of Rochester Pollinators , left), my wife Shirley (center), and me (right). While my wife and I like birds and b...
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I am an emeritus professor of physics at Oakland University, and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. The purpose of this blog is specifically to support and promote my textbook, and in general to illustrate applications of physics to medicine and biology.
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