Chemistry 418/518 Nuclear Chemistry Winter 2006

Instructor:   W. Loveland        Office: RC B123           Office Hours: MTuWTh 1600

Email:lovelanw@onid.orst.edu                   web: http://www.orst.edu/dept/nchem

Class Meeting Time and Place:TuTh 2000-2120 Wngr 149A

Textbooks: Modern Nuclear Chemistry, W. Loveland, D.J. Morrissey, and G.T. Seaborg (Wiley, 2005)

           

         

Tentative Schedule (REVISED)

Lecture

Date

Topic

Reading

1

1/10

Introduction

Chap. 1

2

1/12

Radioactive Decay Kinetics

Chap. 3

3

1/17

Nuclear Masses and Binding Energy

Chap. 2

4

1/19

QM Properties

Chap. 2

5

1/24

Shell Model

Chap. 6

6

1/26

Collective Model

Chap. 6.

7

1/31

Alpha Decay

Chap 7

8

2/2

TEST

 

9

2/7

Beta Decay

Chap. 8

10

2/9

Gamma Decay

Chap. 9

11

2/14

Tracers

Chap 4

11

2/16

Nuclear Reactions

Chap. 10

12

2/21

Nuclear Reactions

Chap. 10

13

2/23

Nuclear Reactions

Chap 10

14

2/28

Fission

Chap. 11

15

3/2

Astrophysics

Chap. 12

16

3/7

Radioanalytical Methods

Chap. 13

17

3/9

TEST

 

18

3/14

Heavy Elements

Chap. 15

 19

3/16

Radiochemistry

 Chap19

FINAL EXAMINATION--March 21, 2006  2000

GRADING CRITERIA:         Homework 300 pts., Examinations 300 pts., Final 400 pts.,

                                                >250 pts. = C, >500 pts. = B, >750 pts. = A.

          There will be weekly homework assignments.

 

Learning Objectives

 

Students should acquire the ability to explain correctly the major ideas associated with the topics listed below, to work numerical problems involving these concepts and to extend the use of these concepts to unknown situations. The topics are:

(a) the nomenclature used to describe nuclei, their structure, reactions and decay

(b) the structure of nucleons

(c) relativisitic descriptions of nuclear phenomena

(d) the systematics of nuclear masses and the use of these masses in calculations

(e) the semi-empirical mass equation

(f) the sizes, shapes and regions of permanent deformation of nuclei

(g) the quantum mechanical properties of nuclei, angular momentum, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments

(h) radioactive decay kinetics, including equilibria

(i) naturally occurring radioactivity

(j) radiodating

(k) the design and execution of radiotracer experiments

(l) nuclear medicine and radiopharmacy

(m) the nuclear shell model and its application

(n) the collective model and its application

(o) the nucleus as a Fermi gas

(p) alpha decay (energetics, theory, hindrance factors)

(q) beta decay (types, spectral shapes,decay constant)

(r) gamma decay (types, transition probabilities, internal conversion)

(s) nuclear reactions (energetics, cross sections, reaction mechanisms with special emphasis on heavy ion reactions and high energy reactions)

(t) fission (probability of fission, fission product distributions, dynamical proerties and excitation energies of fragments)

(u) nucleosynthesis (primordial and stellar)

(v) the solar neutrino problem

(w) nuclear analytical techniques (such as NAA, PIXE, RBS) and their proper use

(x) nuclear particle accelerators (types, operating principles, beam optics)

(y) nuclear weapons (basic principles and design)

(z) the physics and chemistry of the transuranium elements and their synthesis