The seminar is aimed at mastering simple calculations within this field and at discussion of the manner of presenting these topics to high school students. An integral part of the seminar are the students presentations and their tuning.
The topics:
The basic properties of nuclei, binding energy, properties of nuclear forces.
Natural and artificial radioactivity. The properties of nuclear radiation. Interaction of radiation with matter, cross section.
The use of ionizing radiation in research and in industry. Basics of dosimetry.
Basic properties of nuclear reactions, calculations using the conservation laws.
Fission nuclear reactors, physics and kinetics. Nuclear and radiation safety. Nuclear waste and its manipulation. Fusion reactors.
Elementary particles, history and the current view. Systematics.
Interactions. The current Standard model.
Methods of particle physics. Accelerators and detectors.
Seminar to course of Nuclear Physics.
For the teacher studies.