22.01 | Fall 2016 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation

Lecture Videos

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120 MB
Lecture 1: Radiation History to the Present—Understanding the Discovery of the Neutron
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153 MB
Lecture 2: Radiation Utilizing Technology
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121 MB
Lecture 3: Nuclear Mass and Stability, Nuclear Reactions and Notation, Introduction to Cross Section
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117 MB
Lecture 4: Binding Energy, the Semi-Empirical Liquid Drop Nuclear Model, and Mass Parabolas
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125 MB
Lecture 5: Mass Parabolas Continued, Stability, and Half-Life
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113 MB
Lecture 6: The Q-Equation—The Most General Nuclear Reaction
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117 MB
Lecture 7: Q-Equation Continued and Examples
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112 MB
Lecture 8: Radioactive Decay—Modes, Energetics, and Trends
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208 MB
Lecture 10: Radioactive Decay Continued
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122 MB
Lecture 11: Radioactivity and Series Radioactive Decays
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136 MB
Lecture 12: Numerical Examples of Activity, Half-Life, and Series Decay
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209 MB
Lecture 13: Practical Radiation Counting Experiments—Solid Angle, Count Rates, Uncertainty, and Hands-On Gamma Counting and Nuclear Activation Analysis
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119 MB
Lecture 14: Photon Interactions with Matter I—Interaction Methods and Gamma Spectral Identification
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112 MB
Lecture 15: Photon Interaction with Matter II—More Details, Shielding Calculations
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104 MB
Lecture 16: Nuclear Reactor Construction and Operation
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105 MB
Lecture 17: Ion-Nuclear Interactions I—Scattering and Stopping Power Derivation, Ion Range
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117 MB
Lecture 18: Ion-Nuclear Interactions II—Bremsstrahlung, X-Ray Spectra, Cross Sections
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105 MB
Lecture 19: Uses of Photon and Ion Nuclear Interactions—Characterization Techniques
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114 MB
Lecture 20: How Nuclear Energy Works
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121 MB
Lecture 21: Neutron Transport
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108 MB
Lecture 22: Simplifying Neutron Transport to Neutron Diffusion
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109 MB
Lecture 23: Solving the Neutron Diffusion Equation, and Criticality Relations
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107 MB
Lecture 24: Transients, Feedback, and Time-Dependent Neutronics
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92 MB
Lecture 25: Review of All Nuclear Interactions and Problem Set 7 Help
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121 MB
Lecture 26: Chernobyl—How It Happened
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123 MB
Lecture 27: Nuclear Materials—Radiation Damage and Effects in Matter
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116 MB
Lecture 28: Chernobyl Trip Report by Jake Hecla
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129 MB
Lecture 29: Nuclear Materials Science Continued
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124 MB
Lecture 30: Radiation Dose, Dosimetry, and Background Radiation
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114 MB
Lecture 31: Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine, Where One Finds Ionizing Radiation
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132 MB
Lecture 32: Chemical and Biological Effects of Radiation, Smelling Nuclear Bullshit
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113 MB
Lecture 33: Long-Term Biological Effects of Radiation, Statistics, Radiation Risk
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173 MB
Lecture 34: Radiation Hormesis
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122 MB
Lecture 35: Food Irradiation and Its Safety

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