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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 071 910 SE 015 547 TITLE Project Physics Text 6, The Nucleus. INSTITUTION Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. Harvard Protect Physics. SPONS AGENCY Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. Bureau of Research. BUREAU NO BR-5-1038 .PUB DATE 68 CONTRACT OEC-5-1C-058 NOTE 128p.; Authorized Interim Version EDRS PRICE brio-$0.65 HC -$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Instructional Materials; *Nuclear Physics; Physics; *Radiation; Radiation Effects; Radioisotopes; *Scientific Concepts; Secondary Grades; *Secondary School Science; *Textbooks IDENTIFIERS Harvard Project Physics ABSTRACT Nuclear physics fundamentals are presented in this sixth unit of the Project Physics text for use by senior high students. Included are discussions of radioactivity, taking into account Bacquerells discovery, radioactive elements, properties of radiations, radioactive transformations, decay series, and half-lives. Isotopes are analyzed in connection with positiverays, mass spectrographs, notations for nuclides and nuclear reactions, relative abundances, and atomic masses. Nuclear structures and reactions are studied by using proton-electron and proton-neutron hypotheses with a background of discoveries of neutrons, neutrinosas well as artificial transmutation and artificially induced radioactivity. Information about binding energy,mass-energy balance, nuclear fission and fusion, stellar nuclear reactions, nuclear force and model, and biological and medical application of radioisotopes is, given to conclude the whole text. Historical developmentsare stressed in the overall explanation. Problems with theiranswers are provided in two categories: study guide and end of section questions. Besides illustrations for explanation use, charts of elementary particles and physical constants with conversion factorsare also included in this text unit as appendices. The work of Harvard Project Physics has been financially supported by: the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P..Sloan Foundation, the United.States Office of Education, and Harvard UnivE!rsity. (CC) U S DEPARTMENTOF HEALTH EDUCATION & WELFARE 4FFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HASBEEN REPRO DUCEO EXACTLY ASRECEIVED FROM ORIG THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION INATING II POINTS OFVIFV% OR OPIN IONS STATED DO NOTNECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICEOf EDU CATION POSITION ORPOLICY An Introduction to Physics The Nucleus a Project Physics Text An Introduction to Physics6The Nucleus Authorized Interim Version 1968-69 Distributed by Holt. Rinehart and Winston, Inc.New York Toronto The Project Physics course was developed througi. the Directors of Harvard Project Physics contributions of many people; the following is a pa. tial list Gerald Holton, Dept of Physti s, Harvard University of those contributors. (The affi:ia dons indicatedarc those F Jam( Rutherford, Capuchino High Si hoot, San Bruno, Calif just prior to or during association with the Project.) Flet. her G Watson, Harvard Graduate School of Education Advisory Committee E G Begle, Stanford University, Calif. Paul F. Brandivem, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, San irancisco, Calif Robert Brode, University of California, Berkeley Erwin Hiebert, University of Wisconsin, Madison Harry Kelly, North Carolina State College, Raleigh William C. Kelly, National Research Council, Washington, D C Philippe LeCorbeiller, New School for Social Research, New York, N Y Thomas Miner, Garden City High School, New YorK, N.Y Philip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Ernest Nagel, Columbia University, New York, N Y Leonard K Nash, Harvard University 11 Rabi, Columbia University, New York, N Y. Staff and Consultants Andrew Ahlgren, Maine Township High School, Park Ridge, Ill. L K Akers, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Tenn. 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