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The physics of the Manhattan Project

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

The physics of the Manhattan Project

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The physics of the Manhattan Projectby Bruce Cameron Reed.
Author:	Reed, Bruce Cameron.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	xxiii, 256 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Nuclear fission.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61373-0
ISBN:	9783030613730$q(electronic bk.)

The physics of the Manhattan Project
Reed, Bruce Cameron.

The physics of the Manhattan Project[electronic resource] /by Bruce Cameron Reed. - Fourth edition. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xxiii, 256 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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)

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.

ISBN: 9783030613730$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-61373-0doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

509476
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Subjects--Topical Terms:

265560
Nuclear fission.

LC Class. No.: QC790

Dewey Class. No.: 539.762

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