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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... bomb. Fission weapons can also be made with 233U, which is made in reactors by converting 232Th to 233Th, which then decays to 233U. The energetic gamma rays from 233U make weapon's production and storage difficult. The IAEA is placing ...
... bomb was the 10-ton (0.01 kton) bomb that the United States deployed in the second Gulf War. Nuclear weapon yields have varied from this level used in backpack weapons for destroying bridges and dams to the huge Soviet 100-Mton weapon ...
... bomb with a diameter of 1.5 m, while the Peacekeeper's (W-87) 300-kton warhead has a diameter of only 0.6 m. Nuclear artillery shells are only 0.16 m in diameter. Plutonium is produced when 238U absorbs a neutron to become 239U, which ...
... bomb is reduced by a factor of 100 compared to the gun-barrel design; this is due to two things: The critical ... Bombs Boosted Primaries and H Bombs.
... discussion of laser fusion at the 1The carbon–nitrogen fusion process is more likely on the sun, but it gives the same result. National Ignition Facility.) The root mean square radius of the 1.6. Boosted Primaries and H Bombs 15.
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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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