An introduction to nuclear physics /
This clear and concise introduction to nuclear physics provides an excellent basis for a core undergraduate course in this area. The book opens by setting nuclear physics in the context of elementary particle physics and then shows how simple models can provide an understanding of the properties of...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Prologue
- 2. Leptons and the electromagnetic and weak interactions
- 3. Nucleons and the strong interaction
- 4. Nuclear sizes and nuclear masses
- 5. Ground-state properties of nuclei: the shell model
- 6. Alpha decay and spontaneous fission
- 7. Excited states of nuclei
- 8. Nuclear reactions
- 9. Power from nuclear fission
- 10. Nuclear fission
- 11. Nucleosynthesis in stars
- 12. Beta decay and gamma decay
- 13. Neutrinos
- 14. The passage of energetic particles through matter
- 15. Radiation and life.