UNENE Physics Primer
(2009 version)

Introduction - This is a primer to get you ready for UN0802

THIS PHYSICS PRIMER IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED PREPARATION FOR UN0802 Nuclear Reactor Analysis

UNENE students come from a wide variety of backgrounds and may or may not have taken the undergraduate courses that are expected in all the areas covered by the UNENE graduate courses. To ensure you are prepared for UN0802, it is strongly recommended that you review and learn this material at the beginning of the course. Your professor will assume you have done so.

Administration

• Format: Two day compressed workshop containing lectures and hands-on sessions. Saturday & Sunday Jan. 9th and 10th.
• Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree in engineering or science.
• Location: Lecture Theatre, Durham College - Whitby Campus, 1610 Champlain Avenue, Whitby, ON
• For students at remote locations, it is planned that this course will be offered as a live distance education course via MacLive. You will need a high speed internet connection outside corporate firewalls, an inexpensive headset with microphone and, optionally, a webcam.

ABOUT THE PHYSICS PRIMER

The UNENE Physics Primer is a review of the fundamentals of nuclear and reactor physics. The course is a fast-paced review of physics subject matter that students should be familiar with in preparation for the Nuclear Reactor Analysis (UN 0802) course. Topics include atomic and nuclear structure, nuclear reactions and radioactive decay, interaction of radiation with matter, neutron interactions, introduction to nuclear power production, linear algebra and vector calculus.

Course textbook: Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (third edition), J.R. Lamarsh & A.J. Baratta, Prentice-Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-82498-1

Lecturer: E. Nichita contact information, B. Rouben Benjamin.rouben@sympatico.ca

COURSE MATERIAL

Students are strongly encouraged to read the material (overhead + textbook chapters) before class.

• Course Outline (pdf 63kb)
• Part 1
  • Presentation slides - public version (pdf 558kb) [some copyrighted figures removed]
  • Presentation slides - full version (pdf 911kb) [password protected - provided by the instructor]
• Part 2
  • Presentation slides (pdf 1.5Mb)