Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation (Fall 2016) (M-I-T)

• Lecture 1: Introduction and Matrix Multiplication (M-I-T)
• Lecture 2: Radiation Utilizing Technology (M-I-T)
• Lecture 3: Nuclear Mass and Stability, Nuclear Reactions and Notation, Introduction to Cross Section (M-I-T)
• Lecture 4: Binding Energy, the Semi-Empirical Liquid Drop Nuclear Model, and Mass Parabolas (M-I-T)
• Lecture 5: Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half-Life (M-I-T)
• Lecture 6: The Q-Equation—The Most General Nuclear Reaction (M-I-T)
• Lecture 7: Q-Equation Continued and Examples (M-I-T)
• Lecture 8: Radioactive Decay—Modes, Energetics, and Trends (M-I-T)
• Lecture 10: Radioactive Decay Continued (M-I-T)
• Lecture 11: Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays (M-I-T)
• Lecture 12: Numerical Examples of Activity, Half-Life, and Series Decay (M-I-T)
• Lecture 13: Practical Radiation Counting Experiments—Solid Angle, Count Rates, Uncertainty, and Hands-On Gamma Counting and Nuclear Activation Analysis (M-I-T)
• Lecture 14: Photon Interactions with Matter I—Interaction Methods and Gamma Spectral Identification (M-I-T)
• Lecture 15: Photon Interaction with Matter II—More Details, Shielding Calculations (M-I-T)
• Lecture 16: Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation (M-I-T)
• Lecture 17: Ion-Nuclear Interactions I—Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range (M-I-T)
• Lecture 18: Ion-Nuclear Interactions II—Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections (M-I-T)
• Lecture 19: Uses of Photon and Ion Nuclear Interactions—Characterization Techniques (M-I-T)
• Lecture 20: How Nuclear Energy Works (M-I-T)
• Lecture 21: Neutron Transport (M-I-T)
• Lecture 22: Simplifying Neutron Transport to Neutron Diffusion (M-I-T)
• Lecture 23: Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation, and Criticality Relations (M-I-T)
• Lecture 24: Transients, Feedback, and Time-Dependent Neutronics (M-I-T)
• Lecture 25: Review of All Nuclear Interactions and Problem Set 7 Help (M-I-T)
• Lecture 26: Chernobyl—How It Happened (M-I-T)