Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Science Under Siege , by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez. I recently finished reading Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful ...

John Clarke UC Berkeley, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons This year the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke , Michel Devor...

Physics of the Body . My hearing is not what it used to be. It’s not terrible now; I still get along okay. But I find myself asking my wife ...

The Study of Elementary Particles by the Photographic Method. In the 5th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hob...

Most mornings I take a walk to keep myself in shape. Usually I listen to an audiobook while walking, but for some reason my earbuds didn’t r...

One of my scientific heroes is James Clerk Maxwell . Maxwell (1831–1879) was a Scottish physicist known for developing Maxwell’s equations ...

Air and Water , by Mark Denny . In his book Air and Water , Mark Denny asks an oddball question: Why are there so few aerial plankton? In ...

In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Stokes’ law . When a small sphere, of radius a , moves with sp...

Russ Hobbie and I stress qualitative thinking, in addition to quantitative thinking, in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . Wha...

Recently I wrote a review of the bidomain model of cardiac tissue . Russ Hobbie and I discuss the bidomain model in Section 7.9 of Interm...