Theoretical Nuclear Physics (Dover Books on Physics)

This, as well as  Lectures on Nuclear Theory (Dover Books on Physics)  by Landau and Smorodinsky, are two books that you must have in your personal library. Both books were written the same decade (this was originally published in 1952). Springer published an update in 1979 and Dover started publishing the Springer edition in 1991.Compared to Landau's book this is a bulky one: more than 800 pages. So, if you are an admirer of Landau, start with his book first. You will love how much he covers in about 100 pages.The present book provides much more supporting information for those who find Landau's style too `brief'. Yet, although the book does contain material from quantum mechanics to be more complete (e.g. two appendices), it cannot be read unless someone is already familiar with quantum mechanics. As with Landau's book, and not surprisingly, quantum mechanical scattering theory is a prerequisite to understand it.

Blatt and Weisskopf is a good, thick compendium of nuclear theory developed from a quantum mechanical point of view. It's become something of a classic it its time, and I think this is well deserved, since it is written with a good flow and clarity and also covers everything a nonspecialist in nuclear physics would ever need to know (and provides a good basis for those who are specialists). The Dover edition is nice and also inexpensive. I would highly recommend it as a reference for all physics and chemistry people.

I haven't gone through the entire book, but what I have shows a very detailed scope in nuclear physics

its not for faint of heart or the novice OR someone looking into the guts and bolts of nuclear physics. So if you are looking for reactor principals or something like that, this isn't exactly for you.

Very old version of nuclear phsuoc

An old book still is one of the best.

My son loved it

Excellent as always. Dover always seems to find just the right books that need to stay around!!

A great first step in my plans for world domination

One of the best text books I have ever purchased. It actually seems to be written for people who don't understand the subject, unlike so many others which seem more like references for those who already understand it.

It's very general and somewhat dated information and I am somewhat disappointed. No explicit expressions are given for wave functions and no explanation is given on how various nuclear force potentials have been derived. But it does give many direct references to the literature, so it's still somewhat useful. But I did expect more from it.

Ottimo

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