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PHYS.5610 Nuclear Physics I (Formerly 95.461/561)

Id: 001214 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

Nuclear properties including size, mass, binding energy, electromagnetic moments, parity and statistics; nuclear shell model, collective structure, deformed shell model, radioactive decay law and the Bateman equations, radioactive dating, counting statistics, energy resolution, coincidence measurements and time resolution, lifetime measurements; nuclear barrier pentetration; angular momentum, Coulomb barrier, alpha decay and systematics, fission. (offered as 95.561 for graduate credit).

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: 95.210 Introductory Modern Physics

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