Join an award-winning professor of physics to explore the powerful forces of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, and nuclear medicine.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: A Tour of the Nucleus and Nuclear Forces
- 02: Curve of Binding Energy: Fission and Fusion
- 03: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Decay
- 04: Radiation Sources, Natural and Unnatural
- 05: How Dangerous Is Radiation?
- 06: The Liquid-Drop Model of the Nucleus
- 07: The Quantum Nucleus and Magic Numbers
- 08: Particle Accelerators: Schools of Scattering
- 09: Detecting Subatomic Particles
- 10: How to Experiment with Nuclear Collisions
- 11: Scattering Nucleons in Singles or in Pairs
- 12: Sea Quarks, Gluons, and the Origin of Mass
- 13: Nuclear Fusion in Our Sun
- 14: Making Elements: Big Bang to Neutron Stars
- 15: Splitting the Nucleus
- 16: Nuclear Weapons Were Never “Atomic” Bombs
- 17: Harnessing Nuclear Chain Reactions
- 18: Nuclear Accidents and Lessons Learned
- 19: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Advanced Reactors
- 20: Nuclear Fusion: Obstacles and Achievements
- 21: Killing Cancer with Isotopes, X-Rays, Protons
- 22: Medical Imaging: CT, PET, SPECT, and MRI
- 23: Isotopes as Clocks and Fingerprints
- 24: Viewing the World with Radiation
Taught by
Lawrence Weinstein
