The physics of the Manhattan Project / Bruce Cameron Reed.
2021
QC790
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Title
The physics of the Manhattan Project / Bruce Cameron Reed.
Author
Reed, Bruce Cameron, author.
Edition
Fourth edition.
ISBN
9783030613730 (electronic book)
3030613739 (electronic book)
9783030613723
3030613720
3030613739 (electronic book)
9783030613723
3030613720
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-61373-0 doi
Call Number
QC790
Dewey Decimal Classification
539.7/62
Summary
The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This revised and updated 4th edition explores the challenges that faced the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project. It gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-year undergraduate physics student by examining the details of nuclear reactions, their energy release, analytic and numerical models of the fission process, how critical masses can be estimated, how fissile materials are produced, and what factors complicate bomb design. An extensive list of references and a number of exercises for self-study are included. Revisions to this fourth edition include many upgrades and new sections. Improvements are made to, among other things, the analysis of the physics of the fission barrier, the time-dependent simulation of the explosion of a nuclear weapon, and the discussion of tamped bomb cores. New sections cover, for example, composite bomb cores, approximate methods for various of the calculations presented, and the physics of the polonium-beryllium "neutron initiators" used to trigger the bombs. The author delivers in this book an unparalleled, clear and comprehensive treatment of the physics behind the Manhattan project
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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).
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).