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Nuclear models

JUN 01, 1969
The spherical shell, the deformed shell, “infinite nuclear matter,” the droplet—each of these models provides a simplification that can be useful, in appropriate circumstances, to the study of the nucleus.
David R. Inglis

To UNDERSTAND the behavior of the atomic nucleus we resort to models, for the complexity of the problems that we meet demands simplification if progress is to be made.

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More about the authors

David R. Inglis, University of Massachusetts.

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