Shing
Aug25-08, 07:55 AM
Hi, guys! I am a high school senior, I would like to ask you a few questions about how to measure the released energy during physics experiments, especially both nuclear reactions.
Also, how could Fermi just know the "yield" just by a handful of torn paper?
As the shock wave hit Base Camp, Aeby saw Enrico Fermi with a handful of torn paper. "He was dribbling it in the air. When the shock wave came it moved the confetti. He thought for a moment."
Fermi had just estimated the yield of the first nuclear explosion. It was in the ball park.[13]
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Fermi's strips-of-paper estimate was ten kilotons of TNT; the actual yield was about 19 kilotons
Thanks for your reading!
Also, how could Fermi just know the "yield" just by a handful of torn paper?
As the shock wave hit Base Camp, Aeby saw Enrico Fermi with a handful of torn paper. "He was dribbling it in the air. When the shock wave came it moved the confetti. He thought for a moment."
Fermi had just estimated the yield of the first nuclear explosion. It was in the ball park.[13]
”
Fermi's strips-of-paper estimate was ten kilotons of TNT; the actual yield was about 19 kilotons
Thanks for your reading!