Table of Contents:
  • Ionization and ionization chambers
  • Gas-filled pulse counters
  • Solid and liquid radiation detectors
  • Classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum theory
  • Particle-wave relations
  • Atomic structure
  • Structure of the atomic nucleus
  • The ionizing radiations
  • Natural radioactivity
  • Alpha-particle emission
  • Beta particles
  • Photon absorption and scattering
  • Absorption of charged particles
  • Nuclear reactions
  • Charged-particle accelerators
  • Neutron physics
  • Nuclear fission
  • Nuclear reactors
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Cosmic and terrestrial radiation
  • Transuranium elements
  • Appendix
  • Answers to selected problems.