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قراءة كتاب Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3) Nuclear Fission; Nuclear Fusion; Beyond Fusion
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Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3) Nuclear Fission; Nuclear Fusion; Beyond Fusion
Worlds Within Worlds:
The Story of Nuclear Energy
Volume 3
Nuclear Fission · Nuclear Fusion · Beyond Fusion
by Isaac Asimov
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Office of Information Services
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-189477
1972
Nothing in the history of mankind has opened our eyes to the possibilities of science as has the development of atomic power. In the last 200 years, people have seen the coming of the steam engine, the steamboat, the railroad locomotive, the automobile, the airplane, radio, motion pictures, television, the machine age in general. Yet none of it seemed quite so fantastic, quite so unbelievable, as what man has done since 1939 with the atom ... there seem to be almost no limits to what may lie ahead: inexhaustible energy, new worlds, ever-widening knowledge of the physical universe. Isaac Asimov
Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. It is essential that all Americans gain an understanding of this vital force if they are to discharge thoughtfully their responsibilities as citizens and if they are to realize fully the myriad benefits that nuclear energy offers them.
The United States Atomic Energy Commission provides this booklet to help you achieve such understanding.
- UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
- Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Chairman
- James T. Ramey
- Dr. Clarence E. Larson
- William O. Doub
- Dr. Dixy Lee Ray
ISAAC ASIMOV received his academic degrees from Columbia University and is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is a prolific author who has written over 100 books in the past 18 years, including about 20 science fiction works, and books for children. His many excellent science books for the public cover subjects in mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biology, such as The Genetic Code, Inside the Atom, Building Blocks of the Universe, Understanding Physics, The New Intelligent Man’s Guide to Science, and Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. In 1965 Dr. Asimov received the James T. Grady Award of the American Chemical Society for his major contribution in reporting science progress to the public.
- VOLUME 1
- Introduction 5
- Atomic Weights 6
- Electricity 11
- Units of Electricity 11
- Cathode Rays 13
- Radioactivity 17
- The Structure of the Atom 25
- Atomic Numbers 30
- Isotopes 35
- Energy 47
- The Law of Conservation of Energy 47
- Chemical Energy 50
- Electrons and Energy 54
- The Energy of the Sun 55
- The Energy of Radioactivity 57
- VOLUME 2
- Mass and Energy 69
- The Structure of the Nucleus 75
- The Proton 75
- The Proton-Electron Theory 76
- Protons in Nuclei 80
- Nuclear Bombardment 82
- Particle Accelerators 86
- The Neutron 92
- Nuclear Spin 92
- Discovery of the Neutron 95
- The Proton-Neutron Theory 98
- The Nuclear Interaction 101
- Neutron Bombardment 107
- VOLUME 3
- Nuclear Fission 117
- New Elements 117
- The Discovery of Fission 122
- The Nuclear Chain Reaction 127
- The Nuclear Bomb 131
- Nuclear Reactors 141
- Nuclear Fusion 146
- The Energy of the Sun 146
- Thermonuclear Bombs 148
- Controlled Fusion 150
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