B. Cameron Reed

The Physics of the Manhattan Project (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This book, prepared by a gifted teacher of physics, explores the challenges that faced the members of the Manhattan project. In doing so it gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-level undergraduate physics student. Details of nuclear reactions, their energy release, the fission process, how critical masses can be estimated, how fissile materials are produced, and what factors complicate bomb design are covered. An extensive list of references and a number of problems for self-study are included. Links are given to several spreadsheets with which users can run many of the calculations for themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Originaltitel: The Physics of the Manhattan Project
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783642147098
• Artikelnr.: 37366218

Autorenporträt

Bruce Cameron Reed is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics at Alma College (Michigan), emeritus. He has published five textbooks and over 50 journal papers and semi-popular articles on the Manhattan Project; three of the texts are with Springer (one of these is currently in press, a popular treatment of the Project). In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his contributions to promoting understanding of the history and physics of the Manhattan Project.

Inhaltsangabe

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).

Rezensionen

"The volume is targeted at readers with an advanced undergraduate physics background, with the goals of explicating the principles behind the fission bombs completed in 1945, and of using these principles to illuminate more general areas of physics, such as electromagnetism and statistical mechanics. ... both physicists and historians might find it most useful as a reference work." (Joseph D. Martin, Metascience, Vol. 30, August 25, 2021)