Nuclear Physics
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:W Heisenberg [Heisenberg, W]

Figure 17.—Ion of hydrogen molecule. Figure 17A.—Scattering of neutrons in hydrogen. The situation is, however, not quite so simple as we have made it appear. If the analogy of nuclear ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Bruce Cameron Reed [Reed, Bruce Cameron]

Figure 5.2. Cross-section drawing of Little Boy showing the major components. Not shown are radar units, clock box with pullout wires, barometric switches and tubing, batteries, and electrical wiring. Numbers ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Bryan Walsh [Walsh, Bryan]

DISEASE Twenty-First-Century Plague The existential threats I’ve covered in this book are either historical or theoretical. I haven’t lived through an asteroid strike or a supereruption or a full-scale nuclear ...
( Category: Geology September 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Geoff Cottrell

Matter and force In the everyday world we take for granted certain objects being identical. Examples are billiard balls which have the same mass, size, and composition. Billiard balls can ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics September 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-31 | Author:Geoff Cottrell

Matter and force In the everyday world we take for granted certain objects being identical. Examples are billiard balls which have the same mass, size, and composition. Billiard balls can ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics August 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Sam Kean

CHAPTER 30 Beautiful Peenemünde In the second half of 1943 the British began seeing signs that, as the German generals had promised, the “fun” with the V-weapons was about to ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics August 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Timothy J Jorgensen [Jorgensen, Timothy J]

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS World War II disrupted research on the structure of DNA, and it wasn’t until the early 1950s that work resumed in earnest. One might expect that ...
( Category: Molecular Biology August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Kate Brown

In Search of Catastrophe In the spring of 1990, the IAEA mounted a major effort to assess Chernobyl damage, and Abel Gonzalez managed it. He recruited two hundred volunteer scientists ...
( Category: Energy Policy April 29,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Feynman, Richard P. & Leighton, Robert B. & Sands, Matthew [Feynman, Richard P.]

( Category: Thermodynamics March 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gino Segrè

25 CHICAGO BOUND Fermi moved to Chicago at the end of April, but Laura stayed behind in Leonia until the end of June so that the children could finish the ...
( Category: United States February 24,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:Richard P. Feynman & Robert B. Leighton & Matthew Sands [Feynman, Richard P.]

( Category: Thermodynamics July 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Don Lincoln

Figure 5.6. The damage to the LHC was considerable. Top, a vaporized copper conductor. This damage is localized, although there were several instances like this. Bottom, damage to the connections ...
( Category: Particle Physics April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:W. Heisenberg

Figure 17.—Ion of hydrogen molecule. Figure 17A.—Scattering of neutrons in hydrogen. The situation is, however, not quite so simple as we have made it appear. If the analogy of nuclear ...
( Category: Atomic & Nuclear Physics April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dean Rickles

2Michael Redhead writes that “the bootstrap programme was not so much refuted as overtaken by the new fundamentalist approach involving truly basic constitutes like quarks and gluons” ([47, p. 573). ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Dittrich & Martin Reuter

(18.1) Here Q(t) and P(t) stand for arbitrary c-number functions (“sources”) and T denotes the time-ordering operation with respect to the Heisenberg operators q(t) and p(t). When acting on a ...
( Category: Particle Physics April 7,2016 )