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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: introduction to nuclear physics
  name:
    name part: Cottingham, W. N.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Greenwood, D. A.
  name:
    name part: Cambridge University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 2001
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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 second edition contains several additional topics: muon-catalysed fusion, the nuclear and neutrino physics of supernovae, neutrino mass and neutrino oscillations, and the biological effects of radiation. A knowledge of basic quantum mechanics and special relativity is assumed. Appendices deal with other more specialized topics. Each chapter ends with a set of problems for which outline solutions are provided.
  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.
  note: W.N. Cottingham, D.A. Greenwood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physique nucléaire
  subject:
    topic: nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Nuclear
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Atomic & Molecular
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Kernphysik
  subject:
    topic: Physique nucléaire
  classification: QC776 .C63 2001eb
  classification: 539.7
  classification: UN 1000
  classification: UO 5000
  classification: PHY 450f
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    title info:
      title: Introduction to nuclear physics
    name:
      name part: Cottingham, W.N.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001
      edition: 2nd ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 00059885
    identifier: (OCoLC)44728091
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