Recent content by Steven S

One doesn't accelerate neutrons instead if you want neutrons of different energies you can make them using a spallation source. Take a proton beam and smack it into a neutron rich target and the reaction will create a ton of neutrons+other crap. Using time of flight methods one can do...

It's hard to say where nuclear and particle physics will be in 20 years in this country due to uncertainties in the national budget. A while back there was an article in Science about in a worst case funding situation the DOE would shut down Jefferson Lab and keep Brookhaven open. This would be...

I like Preston's books "Physics of the Nucleus" and his Nuclear Structure one. They not as shallow as Wong's while still pretty introductory. Of course, I still think Blatt and Weiskopf is still really good but it doesn't really cover shell model or structure in any detail.

I think Shankar's book is the best. It is larger and has more topics than Griffiths and I think the exposition is just as good. Plus it introduces path integrals.

I like S.K. Ma's book Statistical Mechanics. From a different perspective there is Roberson's "Statistical Themophysics" which is good though somewhat mathematical. Recently I saw Leo Kadanoff had a new book out on Stat Mech that looked fairly interesting and easy to read.

I recommend Bishop and Goldber'g "Tensor Analysis on Manifolds". It is really cheap since it is a Dover book and covers all the basics.