The Physics of the Manhattan Project

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The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This book, prepared by a gifted teacher of physics, explores the challenges that faced the members of the Manhattan project. In doing so it gives a clear introdu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, B. Cameron (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:2nd ed. 2011.
Temas:
Nuclear fusion.
Nuclear chemistry.
Physics-Philosophy.
Nuclear Fusion.
Nuclear Chemistry.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Energy Release in Nuclear Reactions, Neutrons,
  • Fission, and Characteristics of Fission
  • 1.1 Notational Conventions for Mass Excess and Q-Values
  • 1.2 Rutherford and the Energy Release in Radium Decay
  • 1.3 Rutherford's First Artificial Nuclear Transmutation
  • 1.4 Discovery of the Neutron
  • 1.5 Artificially-Induced Radioactivity and the Path to Fission
  • 1.6 Energy Release in Fission
  • 1.7 The Bohr-Wheeler Theory of Fission: The Z2/A Limit Against Spontaneous Fission
  • 1.8 Energy Spectrum of Fission Neutrons
  • 1.9 Leaping the Fission Barrier
  • 1.10 A Semi-Empirical Look at the Fission Barrier
  • Part 2. Critical Mass and Efficiency
  • 2.1 Neutron Mean Free Path
  • 2.2 Critical Mass: Diffusion Theory
  • 2.3 Effect of Tamper
  • 2.4 Estimating Bomb Efficiency - Analytic
  • 2.5 Estimating Bomb Efficiency - Numerical
  • 2.6 Another Look at Untamped Criticality: Just One Number
  • Part 3. Producing Fissile Material
  • 3.1 Reactor Criticality
  • 3.2 Neutron Thermalization
  • 3.3 Plutonium Production
  • 3.4 Electromagnetic Separation of Isotopes
  • 3.5 Gaseous (Barrier) Diffusion
  • Part 4. Complicating Factors
  • 4.1 Boron Contamination in Graphite
  • 4.2 Spontaneous Fission of 240Pu, Predetonation, and Implosion
  • 4.3 Tolerable Limits for Light-Element Impurities
  • Part 5. Miscellaneous Calculations
  • 5.1 How Warm Is It?
  • 5.2 Brightness of the Trinity Explosion
  • 5.3 A Model for Trace Isotope Production in a Reactor
  • Appendix A Selected -Values and Fission Barriers
  • Appendix B Densities, Cross-Sections, and Secondary Neutron Numbers
  • Appendix C Energy and Momentum Conservation in a Two-Body Collision
  • Appendix D Energy and Momentum Conservation in a Two-Body Collision That Produces a
  • Gamma-Ray
  • Appendix E Formal Derivation of the Bohr-Wheeler Spontaneous Fission Limit
  • Appendix F Average Neutron Escape Probability From Within a Sphere
  • Appendix G The Neutron Diffusion Equation
  • Appendix H Questions and Answers
  • Appendix I Further Reading
  • Appendix J Useful Constants and Conversion Factors.

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