Chemistry 418/518 Nuclear Chemistry Winter 2011
Instructor:
Email:lovelanw@onid.orst.edu
web: http://www.orst.edu/dept/nchem
Class Meeting Time and Place:MW 1800-1920 GBAD 103
Textbooks: Modern
Nuclear Chemistry, W.
The book Modern Nuclear Chemistry is being revised. To aid students and faculty during this transition process, we
will post new versions of the various chapters as they are being prepared. We start by posting an "error-free" version of the
2006 edition of the book.
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Error -free version of First Edition of Modern Nuclear Chemistry
Course website http://osu.orst.edu/instruct/ch374/ch418518
Tentative Schedule
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1 |
1/3 |
Chap. 1 |
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2 |
1/
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Chap. 3 |
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3 |
1/10 |
Chap. 2 |
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4 |
1/12 |
Chap. 2 |
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5 |
1/19 |
Chap. 5 |
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6 |
1/24 |
Chap. 6. |
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7 |
1/26 |
Chap 6 |
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8 |
1/31 |
Chap 7 |
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9 |
2/2 |
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10 |
2/7 |
Chap. 8 |
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11 |
2/9 |
Chap. 9 |
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12 |
2/14 |
Chap. 10 |
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13 |
2/16 |
Chap. 11 |
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14 |
2/21 |
Chap. 12 |
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15 |
2/23 |
Chap 15 |
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16 |
2/28 |
TEST
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17 |
3/2 |
Chap.
17 |
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18 |
3/7 |
Chap.
17 |
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19 |
3/9 |
Review
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Handout |
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FINAL EXAMINATION--March 14, 2011 2000 |
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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) relativistic
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
(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) the physics and
chemistry of the transuranium elements and their synthesis
(x) The interaction of
radiation with matter
Lesson #1--Introduction to Nuclear
Science
Lesson #2--Radioactive Decay Kinetics
Problem Set 1 Due 10 January, 2011
Problem Set #1 --powerpoint pdf
Chapter 1 Sample Problems--ppt mov
Chapter 3 Sample Problems--ppt mov
Lesson #4--Quantum Mechanical Properties of the Nucleus
Problem Set 2 Due 19 January, 2009
Problem Set #2--LSM 3-4, 3-14, 3-17, 2-5,2-16,2-21
Problem Set #3--LSM 1-24,3-1,3-2,3-3 Due 26 January, 2011
Lesson #7 The Collective and Fermi Gas Models
Problem Set #4 Due 31 January, 2011
Problem Set #4--LSM 6-1, 6-6, 6-9, 6-10
Problem Set #5--LSM 7-5,7-13,8-2,8-4,9-3,9-8
Problem Set #5 Due 14 February, 2011
Lesson #11 Nuclear Reactions 1
Problem Set #6--LSM 10-5,10-8,10-16, 10-17
Problem Set 6 Due 21 February, 2011
Lesson #12 Nuclear Reactions 2
Lesson #14 Nuclear Astrophysics
Lesson #15 The Transuranium Elements
Problem Set 7 Due 7 March, 2011
Problem Set # 9 LSM 15-1,15-3, 15-5, 15-7, 17-1, 17-8, 17-10
Problem Set 9 Due 9March, 2008
Lesson #15 Interaction of Radiation with Matter--Charged Particles
Lesson #16 Interaction of Radiation with Matter--Photons and Neutrons
