Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Radiation
Nuclear Reactions Part I: (alpha, p), (alpha, n), (gamma, n), (p, alpha) Reactions
Nuclear Reactions Part II: Fission and Fusion
*The Shell Model
*The Theory of Alpha Decay
The material presented in these two videos is more difficult and requires more of an understanding of quantum mechanics than the unstarred lectures.
Visit the Nuclear Wallet Cards website for tables that contain atomic masses, half-lives, etc. of all known nuclides.
The following articles are on the natural fission reactors at the Oklo site:
Alvin Weinberg, "Assessing the Oklo phenomen," Nature 266, 206(1977)
S.A. Durrani, "Natural fission reactors-Oklo style," Nature 271, 306(1978)
Bartholomew Nagy, et al, "Organic matter and containment of uranium and fissiogenic isotopes at the Oklo natural reactors," Nature 354, 472(1991)
Introduction to Particle Physics- PowerPoint only
Introduction to Particle Physics Part II: Four Fundamental Interactions, Leptons, and Hadrons
Visit the Particle Data Group website not only for best values of observed particles, but also information on searches for hypothetical particles such as the magnetic monopole. In addition, there are review papers on experimental methods and colliders.
Visit the CERN website for access to press releases about discoveries made at that facility as well as descriptions of current projects.
The following articles are on antihydrogen experiments:
Tom W. Hijmans, "Particle physics: Cold antihydrogen," Nature 419, 439(2002)
M. Amoretti, et al, "Production and detection of cold antihydrogen atoms," Nature 419, 456(2002)
Geoff Brumfiel, "Antihydrogen: Holding up a mirror to physics' world view," Nature 420, 731(2002)
Y. Enomoto, et al, "Synthesis of Cold Antihydrogen in a Cusp Trap," Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 243401(2010)
The ALPHA Collaboration, "Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds," Nature Physics 7, 558(2011)
Stability of Solutions to Linear and Almost Linear Differential Equations How to determine the type of critical point- improper node, proper node, saddle point, spiral point, or center- of a linear autonomous system is explained. Then, these results are extended to almost linear autonomous systems. Included is a discussion of the stability of solutions to the linearized simple pendulum, simple pendulum, and damped pendulum problems. The Python scripts that were used to generate the plots of the trajectories are posted at the Code page.
Quantum Mechanics Mini-Course
The Inadequacy of Classical Physics
The Bohr Model
Schroedinger's Equation