Supplementary Reading

Supplementary Reading

NERS 311/312:
Elements of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences I/II
Reading and Supplementary Material/Fall 2019

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Math notes are at the bottom of this page
311 Material is in Chapters 1-8, 312 in Chapters 10-17
The book (last build 8/18/2014) (link)
Index to the Lecture Notes (link)
Leon van Dommelen's excellent (free) on-line book(link)
New Your Times article on the quantization of space and time
Chapter 1: Introduction and Classical Two-Body Kinematics Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Wiki on Modern Physics; Wiki on Cherenkov Radiation; How to play pool
Chapter 2: Special Relativity Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Supplementary notes on annihilation; SLAC's beam stopper Profile view; SLAC's beam stopper End-on view; SLAC's beam stopper Description of the beam stopper; Wiki on What is a photon?; Wiki on Relativistic energy-momentum relation; Primer on Special Relativity; Best explanation of the Twin Paradox; Wiki on The Ladder paradox; Muon Lifetime; Length Contraction and SpaceTime, Light cones, Animation; Kip Thorne Interviewed on SpaceTime; Interactive Klein Nishima Formula for Compton Effect
Chapter 3: Particle-like Nature of Waves Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Wiki on Electromagnetic waves (great vids!); Wiki on Maxwell's equations; Wiki on Magnetic monopoles!; Wiki on Photoelectric effect; Wiki on Compton Effect; Wiki on Blackbody radiation
Chapter 4: Wave-like properties of Particles Lecture notes Old lecture notes
Chapter 5: The Shrodinger equation Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Extra notes on Quantum Mechanics on the surface of a sphere; Wiki on Particle in a box; Hyperphysics on Particle in a box; 4 Feynman lectures on Quantum Physics; Cool Java apps on Quantum and more; U Colorado (Physics) simulation on Quantum Tunneling; Extra notes on the Harmonic Potential; Wiki on the Harmonic Potential; Extra notes on the <m|x|n> transition in the Harmonic Potential; Step potentials and the Correspondence Principle; Discontinuities in potentials in Quantum Mechanics; Quantization in Quantum Physics; IIT Madras Lecture of Heisenberg Uncertainty; Why QM uses mod squared; Wave-Particle Duality Animation; Interactive Bound States of a Finite Potential Well; Interactive Scattering of a Square Potential Well; Potential Barriers in Classical and Quantum Mechanics; IIT Delhi lecture Tunneling though a step potential; Turning Points; Quantum Harmonic Oscillator; Quantum Harmonic Oscillator via Ladder Operators; Matlab Code for transition rates |<0|x|0>^2 |<0|x|1>^2 |<0|x|2>^2 |<0|x|3>^2 |<0|x|4>^2 |<0|x|5>^2 |<100|x|101>^2
Chapter 6: The Rutherford-Bohr model of the Atom Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Matlab code used to generate the graphs on Slides 19 and and 20; Matlab code used to generate the graph on Slide 25; Extra notes on Central Forces in CM and QM; Extra notes on Solid Angle; Extra notes on Classical Rutherford Scattering; Paper on Solid Angle of an off-axis disk; Picture of Rutherford in lab; Rutherford CrossSection Derivation; Hydrogen Atom Transitions, Selection Rules, Lasers; Balmer Series and Hydrogen Spectra; Lyman-alpha lines; Lyman-alpha forest; Stern-Gerlach Experiment; Stern-Gerlach Animation
Chapter 7:The Hydrogen Atom Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Extra notes on Central Forces in CM and QM
Chapter 8: Many-Electron Atoms Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Wiki on Hund's Rules; More Wiki on Hund's Rules; Wiki on Lasers; Nice video on Lasers
Chapter 9 Does not exist, just saving a place for the future
Chapter 10: Nuclear Properties Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Extra notes on Quantum Mechanics on the surface of a sphere; Notes on Magnetic moment of the D; Extra notes on QM derivation of Rutherford cross section; Nuclear Science A long range plan (great background material); Wiki page on neutron stars; Wiki page on lunar libration (related to quadrupole moments
Chapter 11: The Force Between Nucleons Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Notes on Magnetic moment of the D
Chapter 12: Nuclear Models Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Spin and parity assignments for Z = 1 -- 9; Phonon excitations by analogy with water drops; Two lectures by Prof. Paddy Regan (University of Guildford - Surrey) on nuclear collective structure Lecture 1 and Lecture 2
Chapter 13: Radioactive Decay Lecture notes Old lecture notes: Derivations of Fermi's Golden Rule 2, and the Lorentz distribution
Chapter 14: α-Decay Lecture notes Old lecture notes
Chapter 15: β-Decay Lecture notes Old lecture notes
Chapter 16: γ-Decay Lecture notes Supplemental notes 1 Supplemental notes 2 Old lecture notes
Chapter 17: Nuclear Reactions Lecture notes Old lecture notes
Chapter 18 Mathematical Notation used in this Book: Additional Math Notes!; MIT's excellent notes on Coordinate systems; AMIT's notes on Multivariable Calculus; Wiki on Propagation of Uncertainty; Wiki on Taylor Series; Wiki on Vectors (Euclidean Vectors); Wiki on Dot Product of Vectors; Wiki on Cross Product of Vectors; MIT Lecture on Vectors; Wiki on Even and Odd Functions; Wiki on Heaveside Stop Function (related to the delta-function; MIT Lecture on Delta function