Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy
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Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy

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Isaac Asimov (Editor)

Series: Physics Research and Technology
BISAC: SCI051000

In a way, nuclear energy has been serving man as long as he has existed. It has served all of life; it has flooded the earth for billions of years. The sun, you see, is a vast nuclear engine, and the warmth and light that the sun radiates is the product of nuclear energy. In order for man to learn to produce and control nuclear energy himself, however, three lines of investigation—atoms, electricity, and energy—had to develop and meet.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Atomic Weights, Energy and Electricity

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Atomic Weights

Chapter 3. Electricity
Units of Electricity
Cathode Rays
Radioactivity
The Structure of the Atom
Atomic Numbers
Isotopes

Chapter 4. Energy
The Law of Conservation of Energy
Chemical Energy
Electrons and Energy
The Energy of the Sun
The Energy of Radioactivity

Part II. Mass and Energy, the Neutron and the Structure of the Nucleus

Chapter 5. Mass and Energy

Chapter 6. The Structure of the Nucleus
The Proton
The Proton-Electron Theory
Protons in Nuclei
Nuclear Bombardment
Particle Accelerators

Chapter 7. The Neutron
Nuclear Spin
Discovery of the Neutron
The Proton-Neutron Theory
The Nuclear Interaction
Neutron Bombardment

Part III. Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fusion and Beyond Fusion

Chapter 8. Nuclear Fission
New Elements
The Discovery of Fission
The Nuclear Chain Reaction
The Nuclear Bomb
Nuclear Reactors

Chapter 9. Nuclear Fusion
The Energy of the Sun
Thermonuclear Bombs
Controlled Fusion

Chapter 10. Beyond Fusion
Antimatter
The Unknown

Reading List

Index

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