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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... Radiation. Compression. From the beginning of the Manhattan Project, Edward Teller wanted to develop the hydrogen bomb, so he refused to work on pure fission bombs. The initial idea was to compress the secondary with mechanical shock ...
... Radiation. Dose. Neutron bombs produce only one-half as much radioactivity as pure fission bombs, but they give a much larger radiation dose to close-in troops. A 1-kton tactical fission weapon delivers a neutron dose of 2.5 Sv (250 rem) ...
... radiation, and prompt/delayed radiation. The division of the total energy into these quantities depends on weapon yield, ratio of fusion to fission energies, and height of burst. This chapter discusses blast, thermal, and radiation ...
... radiation, and nuclear radiation from 1-Mton surface and air explosions) 1 Mton Blast (5 psi) Thermal (7 cal/cm2) Radiation (4.5 Sv,450 rem) Surface 4.6 km 11 km 2.7 km Air burst 6.7 km 17 km 2.7 km Glasstone and Dolan, 1977. Some ...
... radiation at a time-integrated level of 5 Sv (500 rem) over an area 30 miles wide and 1000 miles long. A prompt dose of 4.5Sv (450 rem) is lethal to about 50%, and essentially no one Table 1.5. Overpressure (using one and two terms for ...
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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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