THIS work combines a comprehensive set of tables of nuclear physics data compiled by J. Mattauch with an introduction to nuclear physics by S. Fluegge. It was first published in Germany in 1941 and ...

THERE is a real need for text-books covering a self-cofitaihed lecture course on atomic physics. By depleting drastically from the historical order of development, a very wide ground may be covered ...

Coaching appointments will be available beginning in week 2 of the fall semester. Please make an appointment using the link below. One-on-one appointments between students and physics coaches offer ...

That all changed on Feb. 11, 1939, with a letter to the editor of Nature – a premier international scientific journal – that described exactly how such a thing could occur and even named it fission.

Mark your calendars to attend a pair of science lectures at Jack C. Davis Observatory in September. On Sept. 9, WNC physics professor Dr. Thomas Herring will lecture on “Nuclear Physics for Everyone,” ...

The principle of a tracer study is that it allows the analysis of a substance and its interactions in the body through the labeling of the substance with a radionuclide in a manner that does not alter ...

Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the sun through every square centimeter of Earth every second, which is transparent to them. After ...