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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... warheads. How many nuclear weapons do the United States and Russia need and what controls must be imposed on them? Will US nuclear weapons need further testing? If one country tests, will other countries then begin testing? Can excess ...
... warheads in 1946 to 50 in 1958 to 30,000 in 1965. The Russians followed suit with 40,000 warheads by 1985 (Fig. 1.1). In Szilard's later years he organized nuclear scientists into the Council for a Livable World and the Pugwash movement ...
... warhead. 1.2. Fission. Energetics. A 1-Mton weapon can destroy houses at a distance of 5–10 km that give thirddegree burns at 10 km, and lethal radioactive plumes at a distance of 100 km. The size of 1 million tons of conventional ...
... warheads on intercontinental ballestic missiles (ICBMs). After a 235U or 239Pu nucleus captures a neutron, the resultant 236U or 240Punucleus oscillates like a liquid drop and splits into two fission fragments. The oscillations are ...
... warhead is analogous to folding paper, as each folding doubles the thickness. To illustrate, folding a sheet of paper of thickness d 51 times gives a folded thickness of D = d(251) = (7.6 × 10−5 m)(2.3 × 1015) = 170 million km, (1.23) ...
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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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