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Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Nuclear structure physics
The First Edition of this title presented a method to study the
structure of matter with a full Example analyzing string, photon
and graviton. In this Second Edition we take that Example as a
theory which offer volume, weight and length of a string and equate
strings with photon and graviton, and prove that strings have two
properties: affinity and a state of stillness or vibration. Offers
too, the quantity of photons in a stream of light and how to
compute radiation with them. Gradation of physical laws from the
event horizon up to the macro scale is developed in detail never
made before under a Universe in expansion. Proof that light cannot
reach the full expand of the Cosmos is computed, and in the volume
far away from the observable expansion are found the dark matter
and its carried energy. Many new formulas are found, especially E =
D.V in addition of Planck and Einstein E's; Newton constant of
gravitation for that part of the Universe beyond the observable is
equal to h times c squared. Additions to the First Law of Classical
Mechanics and Second Principle of Thermodynamics are suggested.
From the First Edition are maintained the Introduction to Modeling
Structure of Matter and on Extractable Energy, more research are
required in the former and experimentation in the latter. It
appears that at micro scale the structure of matter can be properly
modeled and at large scale the Cosmos is larger that it is assumed,
its more accurate size is computed as well.
No single figure embodies Cold War science more than the renowned
physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although other scientists may have
been more influential in establishing the institutions and policies
of the nuclear age, none has loomed larger in the popular
imagination than the "father of the atomic bomb." Americans have
been drawn to the story of the Manhattan Project Oppenheimer helped
lead and riveted by the McCarthy-era politics that caught him in
its crosshairs. Journalists and politicians, writers and artists
have told Oppenheimer's story in many different ways since he first
gained notoriety in 1945. In Storytelling and Science, David K.
Hecht examines why they did so, and what they hoped to achieve
through their stories. From the outset, accounts of Oppenheimer's
life and work were deployed for multiple ends: to trumpet or
denigrate the value of science, to settle old scores or advocate
new policies, to register dissent or express anxieties. In these
different renditions, Oppenheimer was alternately portrayed as hero
and villain, establishment figure and principled outsider,
"destroyer of worlds" and humanist critic. Yet beneath the varying
details of these stories, Hecht discerns important patterns in the
way that audiences interpret, and often misinterpret, news about
science. In the end, he argues, we find that science itself has
surprisingly little to do with how its truths are assimilated by
the public. Instead its meaning is shaped by narrative traditions
and myths that frame how we think and write about it.
The textbook begins with exercises related to radioactive sources
and decay schemes. The problems covered include series decay and
how to determine the frequency and energy of emitted particles in
disintegrations. The next chapter deals with the interaction of
ionizing radiation, including the treatment of photons and charged
particles. The main focus is on applications based on the knowledge
of interaction, to be used in subsequent work and courses. The
textbook then examines detectors and measurements, including both
counting statistics and properties of pulse detectors. The chapter
that follows is dedicated to dosimetry, which is a major subject in
medical radiation physics. It covers theoretical applications, such
as different equilibrium situations and cavity theories, as well as
experimental dosimetry, including ionization chambers and solid
state and liquid dosimeters. A shorter chapter deals with
radiobiology, where different cell survival models are considered.
The last chapter concerns radiation protection and health physics.
Both radioecology and radiation shielding calculations are covered.
The textbook includes tables to simplify the solutions of the
exercises, but the reader is mainly referred to important websites
for importing necessary data.
This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan
Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects
of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or
advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of
energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the
underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons
possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges
faced and overcome in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and
in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out
in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A pioneering treatise presenting how the new mathematical
techniques of holographic duality unify seemingly unrelated fields
of physics. This innovative development morphs quantum field
theory, general relativity and the renormalisation group into a
single computational framework and this book is the first to bring
together a wide range of research in this rapidly developing field.
Set within the context of condensed matter physics and using boxes
highlighting the specific techniques required, it examines the
holographic description of thermal properties of matter, Fermi
liquids and superconductors, and hitherto unknown forms of
macroscopically entangled quantum matter in terms of general
relativity, stars and black holes. Showing that holographic duality
can succeed where classic mathematical approaches fail, this text
provides a thorough overview of this major breakthrough at the
heart of modern physics. The inclusion of extensive introductory
material using non-technical language and online Mathematica
notebooks ensures the appeal to students and researchers alike.
In this full-color edition of Corking the Nuclear Genie, Edward
Esko and Alex Jack present a fresh approach to solving the problem
of nuclear waste. A new and breakthrough paradigm of physics and
ecology for the 21st century.
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