Physics of Societal Issues: Calculations on National Security, Environment, and EnergySpringer Science & Business Media, 10 серп. 2007 р. - 487 стор. Physics of Societal Issues is a textbook for all those who wish to discuss the fundamental issues of energy use, nuclear weapons, and the environment using facts and figures instead of slogans and postures. It will provide the reader with the tools and insights needed to analyze many complex issues with insights gained from informed estimates and simple calculations. Taking his inspiration from Fermi's famous "back of the envelope" calculations, Hafemeister shows how to capture the essence of a problem in rough estimates of the important parameters and then to use those estimates to gauge the effects of policy decisions. Hafemeister draws on dozens of years of experience working on just these issues in the US Senate, the national Academy of Sciences, and several Federal agencies, as well as the Lawrence-Berkeley, Los Alamos, and Argonne national laboratories to provide details and examples as well as insight into the issues needed to plan public policy. The book is divided into three parts, each treating an area in which physics plays a major role: - National security: nuclear weapons and their effects, missile defenses, arms control and verification, and nuclear proliferation and terrorism - The environment: pollution dispersal and control, radioactive pollution, climate change, and the epidemiology of electromagnetic radiation - Energy: estimating energy resources and use, use of energy in buildings and for transportation, renewable energy sources, and the economics of energy use. Each chapter includes numerous problems to challenge the reader and to extend the discussion. It is the only equation-oriented book for physics seniors and gradutate students that covers the three main physics and society issues. |
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... Soviet compliance to the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, which affected the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, is an example of this phenomenon. It was abundantly clear to me, as the lead State-Department analyst, that the charge ...
... Soviet scientists. An excellent history of nuclear weapons and arms control can be found in the books by Richard Rhodes and Strobe Talbott, listed in the bibliography. Also see the Nuclear Arms Chronology in Appendix A for a listing of ...
... Soviet 100-Mton weapon that was tested at the 58-Mton level in 1962. To help explain the concept of critical masses, we will use scaling laws to consider the effects of simply changing the size of an object. Scaling laws can answer ...
... Soviet perceptions that the United States would actually use it, a result that would deter a Soviet invasion. On the other hand, it could be envisioned that the deployment of neutron bombs would lower the psychological and bureaucratic ...
... Soviets had a difficult time perfecting solid-fueled rockets, as they continued to use liquid fuels for SS-18s and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). Solid-fueled rockets are difficult to control since the inability to close ...
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ABMSDIBMDNMD | 55 |
Verification and Arms Control Treaties | 77 |
Nuclear Proliferation | 105 |
Environment | 134 |
Nuclear Pollution | 163 |
Climate Change | 197 |
Renewable Energy | 316 |
Enhanced EndUse Efficiency | 343 |
Transportation | 378 |
Energy Economics | 402 |
A Nuclear Arms Chronology | 431 |
B EnergyEnvironment Chronology | 446 |
Units | 454 |
Websites | 460 |
Electromagnetic Fields and Epidemiology | 233 |
Energy | 246 |
Energy in Buildings | 279 |
Solar Buildings | 299 |
F Glossary | 469 |
G Index | 483 |
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