Thursday, October 24, 2013

Lecture 9, Part 1: Nuclear Reactions

The first part of the lecture on nuclear reactions is posted.  The lecture begins with a general definition of terms describing nuclear reactions. An example of energetics is provided using the reaction of alpha particles on nitrogen.  A description of cross sections is provided.  This includes how cross sections can be larger than the relative nucleus area.  The first lecture ends with a description of how cross sections can be experimentally measured.

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  1. Just finished this one too. I didn't realize the in order to bombard a target with a charged particle the Coulomb barrier is quite large.

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