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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... effects of simply changing the size of an object. Scaling laws can answer pragmatic questions, for example, “Why do cows eat grass and mice eat grains?” To answer this we may consider animals as simple spherical shapes whose heat loss ...
... effects, the rate of change in n is proportional to n, giving exponential growth, dn/dt = [(k − 1)/τ]n, (1.29) with a solution n = no e(k−1)t/τ. The effective number of neutrons emitted per captured neutron is k, reducing the ...
... effects, as well nuclear winter and electromagnetic pulses, while Chapter 7 discusses low-dose radiation effects. Nuclear weapons can destroy opponent's weapons, but they more easily can devastate cities and people. The 15–20 kton ...
... effect is much less significant than close-in blast effects and fission radioactivity. The yield of a secondary stage is about 50% fusion and 50% uraniumfission. Thus, a 1-Mton, 50–50 weapon has about 500 kton of fission, while a 10 ...
... , megaton, atmospheres. (1.67) survives 1000 rem. If citizens stay inside buildings, the dose. in nautical miles, megaton, psi Figure 1.6. Stratospheric inventory of 90Sr (Glasstone and Dolan, 1977). 1.8. Nuclear Weapon Effects 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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