Super Smart Science: Nuclear Physics Made Easy

Matthew Bluteau is a physicist turned research software engineer at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, a leading international laboratory in fusion science. He obtained a BSc with Honours in Physics from Acadia University, Canada and a PhD in Nuclear and Plasma Physics from the University of Strathclyde, UK. Matthew is serious about science, computer programming, and the environment, and less serious about Lindy Hop dancing, playing acoustic guitar, and yoga.

1: Welcome to nuclear physics
1: The building blocks of our universe
1: What is at the centre of an atom
1: What is inside a nucleus
1: The zoo of nuclei
1: The valley of stability
1: What holds a nucleus together?
1: The most famous equation in nuclear physics
1: Splitting and squashing nuclei
1: Travelling to stability
1: Radioactivity: is it bad?
1: Radioactivity: it's all around
1: Radioactivity in medicine
1: Glossary
1: Index