A reissue of a classic volume, corrected, edited, and typeset, to be published in the Biological Physics Series. Intended for undergraduate courses in physics for students in biophysics, biological physics, physiology, medical physics, and biomedical engineering, this book is an introduction to electricity and magnetism with examples and problems from the medical and biological sciences. The book covers standad topics of electrostatic fields and potentials, electric currents, electrochemistry and bioelectricity, and electromagnetism. Chapters include problems and references.The book can be used as a supplement to standard introductory physics courses, and as a text for medical schools, medical physics courses, and biology departments or as a reference for practitioners. Together with volumes I (mechanics) and II (statistical physics), these three volumes will present all the major topics in physics. Originally published in 1974 from the authors's typescript, this reissue will be edited, corrected, typeset, the art redrawn, and an index added.
These books are being reissued by Springer in the Biological Physics Series in response to frequent requests to provide these texts to satisfy the growing need for a working knowledge of physics among students and practitioners in the medical and biological sciences. The books are also in demand in physics departments either as supplements to traditional intro texts or as main text for those departments offering courses with biological or medical physics orientation. A solutions manual will be available.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The authors are recognized experts in the field, and are under contract for an upperlevel/grad text in biological physics. Benedeck was the recepient of the 1995 Irving Lanmuir Prize from the American Physical Society for Chemical Physics, and the 1994 Biological Physics Prize by the American Physical Society.

Foreword to the First Edition
Series Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
1 The Coulomb Force; Electric Field; Electrostatic Potential; Electrostatic Energy 1
1.1 Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law 1
1.2 The Electric Field 26
1.3 The Electrostatic Potential 60
1.4 Capacitors - Electrostatic Energy Storage 85
1.5 The Electrostatics of Nonconductors: Dielectrics and Electric Polarizability 95
1.6 Electrostatic Forces and Energy in Dielectric Media 139
2 Electric Currents 195
2.1 Introduction 195
2.2 Current Flow, Electrical Resistance, Ohm's Law, and the Dissipation of Electric Power 197
2.3 Conductivity of Electrolyte Solutions 208
2.4 Electrical Conductivity of Metals 226
2.5 Electrical Networks with Steady and Time-Varying Current Flow, Kirchhoff's Laws, Resistance, Capacitance, and Operational Amplifier Circuits 236
2.6 The Electrical Determination of the Capacitance and the Thickness of the Cell Membrane 310
2.7 Charge and Current Flow in Three Dimensions: The Continuity Equation and Charge Neutrality: Quasi-Stationary Flow. Application to Lightning Bolts and Current Flow in the Earth 320
2.8 Electrocardiography 331
3 Electrochemistry and Bioelectricity 381
3.1 The Diffusion of Ions and the Nernst-Planck Equation 382
3.2 Galvanic Cells; Electrodes; Electrochemical Measurements; pH Determination 423
3.3 Membrane Potentials. Biomembranes. Active Transport of Ions. Excitable Membranes and the Action Potential 467
4 Electromagnetism 549
4.1 The Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force 549
4.2 Faraday's Law of Induction 574
4.3 Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves 610
Table of Basic Constants 653
Table of MKSA Units 655
Index