"Version: 20170501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The background -- 1.1. The physics -- 1.2. The Manhattan Project2. Nuclear fission -- 2.1. Energy release in fission -- 2.2. Chain reaction timescale -- 2.3. Temperature equivalent of fission fragments -- 2.4. A first glimpse …
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a surveyThe background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioact…
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Spherical coordinates--a review -- 1.1. Fundamental definitions -- 1.2. Spherical coordinate unit vectors -- 1.3. Time-derivatives of spherical coordinate unit vectors -- 1.4. Some useful integrals2. Dynamical quantities in spherical coo…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. On the sizes of atoms -- 1.2. Spectroscopy, the quantum concept, and the Balmer formula -- 1.3. Circular orbit forces and energetics -- 1.4. The radiative collapse problem2. The Bohr model I : hydrogenic atoms -- 2.1. Niels Bohr : early life and paper I of the trilogy -- 2.2. The Bohr model : orbi…
"Version: 202303"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Polar coordinates--a review -- 1.1. Fundamental definitions -- 1.2. Polar coordinate unit vectors -- 1.3. Time derivatives of polar coordinate unit vectors -- 1.4. Some useful integrals and expansions2. Dynamical quantities in polar coordinates -- 2.1. Position, velocity, acceleration, angular momentum, torque, and energ…