Physics of Societal Issues: Calculations on National Security, Environment, and EnergySpringer Science & Business Media, 10/08/2007 - 487 páginas Physics of Societal Issues is a textbook for all those who wish to discuss the fundamental issues of energy use, nuclear weapons, and the environment using facts and figures instead of slogans and postures. It will provide the reader with the tools and insights needed to analyze many complex issues with insights gained from informed estimates and simple calculations. Taking his inspiration from Fermi's famous "back of the envelope" calculations, Hafemeister shows how to capture the essence of a problem in rough estimates of the important parameters and then to use those estimates to gauge the effects of policy decisions. Hafemeister draws on dozens of years of experience working on just these issues in the US Senate, the national Academy of Sciences, and several Federal agencies, as well as the Lawrence-Berkeley, Los Alamos, and Argonne national laboratories to provide details and examples as well as insight into the issues needed to plan public policy. The book is divided into three parts, each treating an area in which physics plays a major role: - National security: nuclear weapons and their effects, missile defenses, arms control and verification, and nuclear proliferation and terrorism - The environment: pollution dispersal and control, radioactive pollution, climate change, and the epidemiology of electromagnetic radiation - Energy: estimating energy resources and use, use of energy in buildings and for transportation, renewable energy sources, and the economics of energy use. Each chapter includes numerous problems to challenge the reader and to extend the discussion. It is the only equation-oriented book for physics seniors and gradutate students that covers the three main physics and society issues. |
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... estimates, but they may not enhance the debate. For example, uncertainties in the main parameters are often more important than calculating higher order effects. Physics and physicists can provide honest answers that stand up to the ...
... estimate radon levels inside buildings or temperatures of radioactive canisters at Yucca Mountain? Can atmospheric physics determine the fine points on climate change resulting from CO2 increases? Can medical statistics help or confuse ...
... estimated 110 Mbbl/d in 2020? Will national security be threatened as it was in the 1991 Gulf War when we fought to protect oil supplies? The United States now buys as many light trucks and SUVs as it buys cars, lowering the average ...
... estimate the production time-delay for a wide variety of arms control treaties, but these estimates ignore the details of the actual tritium cycle (reserves, pipeline, recycle losses, decay in the warhead). In 2005, under START I, the ...
... estimate for a 1-Mton bomb hitting a 1-GWe reactor predicts an area of 34,000 km2, which would give a lifetime dose of over 1 Sv (100 rem) to the affected population. 1.8.1. Overpressure. Overpressure of 5 psi (30 kPa) destroys wood and ...
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ABMSDIBMDNMD | 55 |
Verification and Arms Control Treaties | 77 |
Nuclear Proliferation | 105 |
Environment | 134 |
Nuclear Pollution | 163 |
Climate Change | 197 |
Renewable Energy | 316 |
Enhanced EndUse Efficiency | 343 |
Transportation | 378 |
Energy Economics | 402 |
A Nuclear Arms Chronology | 431 |
B EnergyEnvironment Chronology | 446 |
Units | 454 |
Websites | 460 |
Electromagnetic Fields and Epidemiology | 233 |
Energy | 246 |
Energy in Buildings | 279 |
Solar Buildings | 299 |
F Glossary | 469 |
G Index | 483 |
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