Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, May 29, 2026

James Keener (1946–2026)

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Mathematical Physiology , by Keener and Sneyd. James Keener died in April. He was a biomathematician who worked at the University of Utah ...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Toy Models

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Using Math in Physics: 4. Toy Models, by Joe Redish .  In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce many ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Elective MRI Screening of the General Public—Buyer Beware

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Elective MRI Screening of the  General Public—Buyer Beware. I saw an article by Matthew Davenport and Scott Reeder published recently in J...
Friday, May 8, 2026

IPMB Machete Order

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What’s the best order to watch the Star War movies? Aficionados have been arguing about this for years. (In fact, this debate raged before...
Friday, May 1, 2026

Oh My! I Was Wrong

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Recently, there has been a brouhaha about “Ghost Murmur,” a proposed way to detect the magnetic field of a human heart from miles away. I wa...
Friday, April 24, 2026

Evangelista Torricelli and the Torr

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Evangelista Torricelli.  In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the units of pressure . ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Henry Oldenburg, Inventor of Peer Review

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Henry Oldenburg. I’ve had many research articles published in scientific journals, and each one of them was peer reviewed . This means the j...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Digital Twin-Guided Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia

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Russ Hobbie and I discuss the electrical behavior of the heart in Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We focus a l...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Ghost Murmur

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This story isn't worth a whole post, but the claim of "ghost murmur" technology used to save an American pilot in Iran was obv...
Friday, April 3, 2026

The Big One

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The Big One , by Osterholm and Olshaker. I’ve been reading The Big One: How We Must Prepare For Future Deadly Pandemics , by Michael Osterho...
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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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