Introduction to Nuclear Physics

Name: Introduction to Nuclear Physics
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ISBN: 9780521657334

ISBN-10: 0521657334

ISBN-13: 9780521657334

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: W. Noel Cottingham, D. A. Greenwood

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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 nuclei, both in their ground states and excited states, and also of the nature of nuclear reactions. The book also includes chapters on nuclear fission, its application in nuclear power reactors, the role of nuclear physics in energy production and nucleosynthesis in stars. This new edition contains several additional topics: muon-catalysed fusion, the nuclear and neutrino physics of supernovae,…

Book details

List price: $99.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Derek Greenwood is a theoretician working in the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory at the University of Bristol.



Preface


Constants of nature, conversion factors and notation


Glossary of some important symbols



Prologue



Leptons and the electromagnetic and weak interactions



Nucleons and the strong interaction



Nuclear sizes and nuclear masses



Ground state properties of nuclei: the shell model



Alpha decay and spontaneous fission



Excited states of nuclei



Nuclear reactions



Power from nuclear fission



Nuclear fusion



Nucleosynthesis in stars



Beta decay and gamma decay



The passage of energetic particles through matter


Appendices


Answers to problems


Index