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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... hydrogen bomb, “Big Mike,” was a large thermos bottle containing liquid deuterium, giving a yield of 10 Mton. Mike could not be delivered with bombers or ICBMs because of the extreme size of its cryogenics. A deliverable H bomb was soon ...
... hydrogen bomb created a gigantic radioactive plume far beyond the blast, killing Japanese fisherman on their vessel, the Lucky Dragon. The destructive effects of Mton-size weapons could be immense under (hopefully rare) United States ...
... hydrogen weapons? (b) How was the first hydrogen device, Mike, made without LiD or tritium? (c) Assume a 500-kton weapon gets its energy 50% from fission and 50% from fusion. How much 235U is destroyed? How much LiD is destroyed? (d) ...
... Hydrogen Bomb, Simon and Schuster, New York. ——— (1988). The Making of the Atom Bomb, Simon and Schuster, New York. Schroeer, D. and J. Dowling (1982). Resource letter: Physics and the nuclear arms race, Am. J. Phy. 50,786–795. Schroeer ...
... hydrogen maser atomic clocks accurate to 10−13 s. For simplicity, consider a cruise missile directly under a GPS satellite in the zenith position on the equator. Signals from the first-neighbor satellites, 15◦ on either side of the ...
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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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