Physics of the Manhattan Project

Physics of the Manhattan Project

Reed, Bruce Cameron

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

01/2022

256

Mole

Inglês

9783030613754

15 a 20 dias

433

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Preface.- Preamble: Fundamental Data On Little Boy and Fat Man.- Energy Release in Nuclear Reactions, Neutrons, Fission, and Characteristics of Fission.- Critical Mass, Efficiency, and Yield.- Producing Fissile Material.- Complicating Factors.- Miscellaneous Calculations.- Appendices (A-K).
Calculate Critical Mass Bomb;History of the Atomic Bomb;Manhattan Project;Manhattan Project Calculations;Nuclear Fission;Nuclear Research in the Forties;Nuclear Weapons;Oppenheimer Physics;Physics of Fission Weapons;Wartime Physics at Los Alamos