Short description This practical textbook gives advanced undergraduates minoring in physics a knowledge of nuclear physics. Simplifying models and approaches reveal the essence of the principles, while the mathematical and quantum mechanical background is integrated in the text where it belongs.
From the contents - Introduction - Nuclear Masses and Energetics of Radioactive Decay and Nuclear Reactions - Phenomenology of Radioactive Decay and Nuclear Reactions - Nuclear Binding Energies: Empirical Data and the Forces in Nuclei - The Semi-Empirical Mass Formula and Applications to Radioactive Decay - Elements of Quantum Mechanics - Nuclear Structure: The Spherical Shell Model - Nuclear Shapes, Deformed Nuclei and Collective Effects - Alpha Decay and Barrier Penetration - Beta Decay - Gamma Decay and Internal Conversion - Nuclear Fission - Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions - The Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter - Appendix 1: Atomic Masses - Appendix 2: Nuclide Table
