Understanding Radiation Science: Basic Nuclear and Health Physics

By James Mannie Shuler

Book Overview

The purpose of Understanding Radiation Science: Basic Nuclear and Health Physics is to provide the reader a basic understanding of radiation science. Therefore, basic nuclear physics and health... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581129076
• ISBN13: 9781581129076
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Universal Publishers
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Better than I thought at first

This small book has just over 100 pages of fairly large text and 5 small illustrations. As someone with quite a bit of related experience, I was hoping for a book that includes some interesting history and a wide variety of application, something like one of the "For Dummies" series of educational books. Instead, it's a fairly concentrated review for someone who already has experience in this area - something similar to study notes that you might review for an exam at the end of a semester-long introductory course in radiation science. It might be a bit too detailed for someone who is brand-new to this topic. But if you already have some background, and are just rusty like I was, I think you will find it to be a good review. Strangely, there were quite a few typos. But they were concentrated mostly in specific chapters, rather than being evenly distributed throughout the book. Maybe the author forgot to have those specific chapters second-checked by an early reader?