Introduction to Atomic and Nuclear Physics
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to Atomic and Nuclear Physics Aerial view of the National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois. (Photograph courtesy of NAL.) Introduction to Atomic and Nuclear Physics HENRY SEMAT Professor... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0030854024
ISBN13:9780030854026
Release Date:January 1972
Publisher:Holt McDougal
Length:712 Pages
Weight:2.75 lbs.
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Early Semat text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The book received was, as expected, the revised 3rd edition first published in 1954, not the later edition shown in the figure. I personally used this edition in the Atomic and Nuclear Physics Course at UC Berkeley in 1955. At that time the only other clear Atomic Physics book was one written by Max Born. The Semat book starts at a level that assumes college level general physics. The explanations are clear, the histories of various discoveries are clear but brief. Math required is algebra and simple calculus. Derivations are numerous and most of the problems at the ends of the chapters have answers. I still find that its explanations of early experiments in Atomic Physics are crisp and interestingly presented. This 3rd edition was too early for the discovery of quarks, quantum electrodynamics and other areas of modern nuclear physics. What it does do it does well.
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