3 Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics is a very wide field. It is also essential to the entire fuel cycle, from reactor design, to final disposal. Nuclear physics is a important to detector design as well. We don’t need to be nuclear physicists, however, to be nuclear engineers. We need to know how to apply these concepts.

Additional notes

• MIT Open Courseware – Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics
• Michigan State University – Nuclear Shell Model Applications
• The University of Manchester – Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Online books by Enrico Fermi
• University of Oxford – Nuclear physics lecture notes
• SMU – Introduction to modern physics
• North Dakota State University – PHY120: Fundamentals of Physics
• San Francisco State University – PHYSICS 430 Lecture Notes on Quantum Mechanics