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Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics
From Nuclear Structure to Cosmology
ISBN/EAN: 9781441918499
Umbreit-Nr.: 950892
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 516 S., 184 s/w Illustr., 516 p. 184 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 06.10.2010
Auflage: 1/2005
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeBasic concepts in nuclear physics.- Nuclear models and stability.- Nuclear reactions.- Nuclear decays and fundamental interactions.- Radioactivity and all that.- Fission.- Fusion.- Nuclear Astrophysics.- Nuclear Cosmology.
- Kurztext
- This course explores nuclear physics and its applications ranging from the structure of nuclei and their reactions, to astrophysics and cosmology. The physics is introduced with arguments based on simple ideas such as the empirical structure of nuclear forces and its interplay with the Pauli principle and Coulomb repulsion. The book then develops elementary nuclear models and illustrates nuclear systematics with experimental data. Reactions and decays are discussed both phenomenologically and from the point of view of fundamental electro-weak interaction theory. The discussions of fission and fusion emphasize nuclear energy production. This leads directly into nuclear astrophysics and nucleosynthesis. The book ends with a presentation of the latest ideas about cosmology. As a primer this course will lay the foundations for more specialized subjects within the vast domain of nuclear physics as a whole. This book emerged from a series of topical courses the authors delivered at the Ecole Polytechnique and will be useful for advanced undergraduates and for scientists in a variety of fields.
- Autorenportrait
- -A. Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Physics Today