PH 311 (Elective)

Atomic and Nuclear Physics

1. Atomic Structure and Atomic Spectra: Rutherford’s Model and concept of stability of
atom, Bohr’s model, Electron orbits, Bohr’s correspondence principle, atomic excitation

2. Size, shape, charge distribution, spin and parity, magnetic moments, Nuclear binding
energy, Semi empirical mass formula, Accelerator and Detector, Liquid drop model,
collective model, shell model, magic numbers Nuclear Reaction: Conservation principles in
nuclear reactions, Q-values and thresholds, nuclear reaction cross sections

3. Natural and artificial radioactivity, Units of radio activity, radioactive decay laws and
radioactive dating Nuclear Decay: Alpha decay, Geiger Nuttall Law Beta Decay, Fission
and Fusion

4. Classification of fundamental forces, Elementry particles (quarks, baryons, mesons,

leptons); Spin and parity assignments, iso spin, strangeness; Gellmann- Nishijima formula

Reference Books:

1. K.S. Krane, 1987, Introductory Nuclear Physics, Wiley, New York.

2. R.R. Roy and B.P. Nigam, 1983, Nuclear Physics, New Age International, New Delhi.
3. Ghoshal, Atomic and Nuclear Physics, Volume 1 and 2.
4. Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, Harper and Row, New York.
5.J.M. Longo, 1971, Elementary Particles, McGraw-Hill, New York.
6. Concepts of modern physics, Arthur Beiser, TMH