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Nuclear & Particle Physics

Prerequisites:
Differential Equations
Quantum Mechanics

Key Lectures

Tutorial

Supplementary Videos

Supplementary Articles

Key Lectures

Prof. H. C. Verma, Nuclear physics: fundamentals and Applications, NPTEL Lecture series, IIT Kanpur

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It contains video lectures of several topics in very detail. The syllabus is: Binding Energy, Nuclear mass, Semi empirical formula, valley of stability, Drip Lines, quark picture, Deuteron, Nuclear scattering, Nucleon mean potential, Magic number, Shell model, Collective models, Alpha decay, Beta decay, Gamma decay, Nuclear reactions, Nuclear Fission, Fusion, Neutrinos, neutrino oscillation, Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy, Nuclear Fission Reactors, Radioactive dating, and Mössbauer Spectroscopy.

Prof. Paola Cappellaro, Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics, MIT Opencourseware, Spring 2012

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This course contains lecture notes and assignments only. It is not a video lecture.

Tutorials

Assignments, Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics, MIT Opencourseware, Spring 2012

 Exams and Solutions, Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics, MIT Opencourseware, Spring 2012 

Simulations & Interactive Tools

PhET Simulation on Nuclear Fission 

Supplementary Videos

  1. Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure 

  2. Is Nuclear Fusion The Answer To Clean Energy?

  3. Types of Nuclear Radiation

  4.  Why is the Weak Force weak? 

  5. The Weak Nuclear Force: Through the looking glass 

  6. The Strong Nuclear Force 

  7.  QCD: Quantum Chromodynamics

  8. Quantum Color 

  9.  Quark-Gluon Plasma 

  10.  The Higgs Boson Was Just the Start: Fermilab and the High Luminosity LHC

  11. Why is There More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe? 

Supplementary Science Education Articles

  1. Possible nuclear fusion of deuteron in the cores of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, and brown dwarfs, AIP Advances 10, 035126 (2020) 

  2. Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) and the Story of Strong Interactions, Resonance  24, 827, (2019) 

  3. Our Particle Universe, Resonance 22, 245, (2017) 

  4. Fermi and the Theory of Weak Interactions, Resonance 19, 18, (2014) 

  5. Gravity Defied: From Potato Asteroids to Magnetised Neutron Stars: 3. White Dwarfs (Dead Stars of the First Kind), Resonance 22, 475, (2017)