Nuclear Radiation Physics
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 5:52 am
I have pushed this book hard for years here. I just purchased two more nice, clean copies of the 4th edition for $3.95 each. Upon arrival, one of the books was a discard from the Univ of Wisconsin library (fusor work being done there). The other copy is a discard from NASA's main library in Wahington, DC.
My only 4th edition copy was getting pretty ratty and this is the edition you want! Check ABE.com (American Book Exchange) or Amazon.
I have all of the editions in my library. The authors Lapp and Andrews really updated the 4th editon, doing away with the 40's and 50's material about fission reactors and filling the first chapters in this last edtion with nuclear detection info.
The different editions were 1948(4 printings into 1952), 1954, 1963 and 1972. Old books with old information?? No! One of the tidiest and easy to digest first year college text that any capable, adroit high school student needs as a reference on this subject.
As Lenard on the TV show, "Big Bang", noted to Penny when, to make conversation, she flippantly asked...."Well, what's new in physics today?....."
Lenard, pausing for a moment of reflection, answered thoughtfully........"Not much in the way of major new physics discoveries or breakthroughs have been made since the late 1930s".
It is to be remembered that qualified, paid physicists work on that TV show to make sure it is all correct physics. Real physicists put those words in Lenard's mouth! (script).
This is true in basic radiation physics, as well. This 4th edition of this great work is still fresh and correct.
If you are interested in cool trivia... The first and second editions are dedicated to Dr. Louis Slotin...(know who he was?)
At the end of the preface of the first, 1948 edition, the authors give their names and locations.
"R.E. Lapp, Wahington DC"...... He worked at NRL, Naval Research Laboratory).....
"H.L. Andrews, Eniwetok Atoll" .... Remember? (The first post war atomic tests were carried out on this Pacific atoll in 1948.... Shots "Able" and "Baker")
Richard Hull
My only 4th edition copy was getting pretty ratty and this is the edition you want! Check ABE.com (American Book Exchange) or Amazon.
I have all of the editions in my library. The authors Lapp and Andrews really updated the 4th editon, doing away with the 40's and 50's material about fission reactors and filling the first chapters in this last edtion with nuclear detection info.
The different editions were 1948(4 printings into 1952), 1954, 1963 and 1972. Old books with old information?? No! One of the tidiest and easy to digest first year college text that any capable, adroit high school student needs as a reference on this subject.
As Lenard on the TV show, "Big Bang", noted to Penny when, to make conversation, she flippantly asked...."Well, what's new in physics today?....."
Lenard, pausing for a moment of reflection, answered thoughtfully........"Not much in the way of major new physics discoveries or breakthroughs have been made since the late 1930s".
It is to be remembered that qualified, paid physicists work on that TV show to make sure it is all correct physics. Real physicists put those words in Lenard's mouth! (script).
This is true in basic radiation physics, as well. This 4th edition of this great work is still fresh and correct.
If you are interested in cool trivia... The first and second editions are dedicated to Dr. Louis Slotin...(know who he was?)
At the end of the preface of the first, 1948 edition, the authors give their names and locations.
"R.E. Lapp, Wahington DC"...... He worked at NRL, Naval Research Laboratory).....
"H.L. Andrews, Eniwetok Atoll" .... Remember? (The first post war atomic tests were carried out on this Pacific atoll in 1948.... Shots "Able" and "Baker")
Richard Hull