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Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics
Art: Not determined, Figure 6 of Radio-active substances, 1904 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Paola Cappellaro
- Term
- Spring 2012
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 9 problem sets · 3 exams · 4 solutions · 9 lecture notes · 1 reading · 27 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 22.02 Introduction to Applied Nuclear Physics, Spring 2012, Prof. Paola Cappellaro — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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How this course was organized
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Materials by section
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Readings
Lecture Notes
17 files
- Lecture 1 slides Download
- Lecture 2 slides Download
- Lecture 4 slides Download
- Lecture 7 slides Download
- Lecture 10 slides Download
- Lecture 16 slides Download
- Lecture 19 slide Download
- Lecture 22 slides Download
- Lecture 23 slides Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 1. Introduction to Nuclear Physics Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 2. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 3. Radioactive Decay, Part I Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 4. Energy Levels Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 5. Nuclear Structure Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 6. Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 7. Radioactive Decay, Part II Download
- Lecture notes, Chapter 8. Applications of Nuclear Science Download
Assignments
9 problem sets
Exams
8 files
Tools
15 files
- Binding Energy from SEMF Download
- Binding Energy (B/A) from SEMF Download
- Radioactive Decay Chain Download
- Uncertainty Principle for Waves Download
- Wave Packet Download
- Scattering and Tunneling Download
- Alpha decay Download
- Alpha decay and alternative decays Download
- Bound States in an Infinite Potential Well Download
- Bound States in a Square Potential Well Download
- Spherical Harmonics Download
- Shell Filling in the Nuclear Shell Model Download
- Sinc Function for Fermi’s Golden Rule Download
- Neutron Scattering Download
- Coulomb (Rutherford) Scattering Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Semi-empirical mass formula Intro to radioactive decay
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Lecture 3: Axioms and eigenstates
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Lecture 4: Measurement and probability
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Lecture 5: Operators, Schrödinger equation
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Lecture 6: Commutator & Uncertainty Principle
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Lecture 7: Tunneling & scattering
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Lecture 8: Alpha decay
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Lecture 9: Bound systems and energy levels
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Lecture 10: Angular momentum
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Lecture 11: Angular momentum: sum rules
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Lecture 12: Hydrogen atom
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Lecture 13: Identical particles
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Lecture 14: The deuteron
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Lecture 15: Nuclear force & shell structure
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Lecture 16: Spin-orbit coupling
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Lecture 17: Time evolution
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Lecture 18: Ehrenfest theorem – Fermi’s Golden Rule
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Lecture 19: Gamma decay
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Lecture 20: Beta decay
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Lecture 21: Cross section, charged particle scattering
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Lecture 22: Rutherford scattering
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Lecture 23: Electromagnetic field interaction with matter
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Lecture 24: Fusion
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Lecture 25: Fission
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