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You're using Coulomb's law, that is only applicable to finding the force between two charges. You are looking for the field at A. To find the field from a point charge, you would use kQ/r^2, where k is Coulomb's constant, Q is the source charge, and r is the distance from the charge. Electric...

You're going to have to show more work, not just say you tossed in a value and got the incorrect answer. That said, since you haven't shown any work, I'll give you an idea of how to attack the first part of the problem. a) The suitcase is moving at a constant speed, so the force of...

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I posted here! Unfortunately, I've been away from the nuclear engineering scene and detoured to computer science. My job now is as a programmer for avionics. I enjoy it, but it isn't my first love. Recently, though, I got invited by my uncle to help out...

It's not an online source, but Todreas and Kazimi's introductory text on thermal hydraulics has many examples and problems where the decay heat of the fission products is 8-10% of maximum thermal power. Since this power is from decay, it cannot be immediately shut down like the fission process...

They want that class for good reason. I had to retake reactor engineering because I had a weak background in thermodynamics. You'll also want a good grasp of differential equations for mass and heat transfer problems you'll have to solve. The ME and NRE majors at my university differed only...

I had interned with some UT guys before. They are a lot more accommodating to the co-operative work program that Georgia Tech, as they offer classes twice a year instead of once. I would strongly suggest you check this program out to get some real world experience. I'm not familiar with...

Well, if it's graduate study, aren't you looking into a more specialized topic anyway? I used Duderstadt and Hamilton in my undergrad course. It is a good resource though, and there are subjects that weren't covered in as much detail as presented.

You can look up errata for the book on a search engine, there seem to be different ones from different universities. This one seems to cover quite a few of the equations in the book: http://holbert.faculty.asu.edu/eee562/Lamarsh_Errata.pdf

It probably has to do with the surface area to volume ratio. Plasma on the outside can lose its energy to the confinement walls.

I have a little experience with different forms of Uranium fuel. I did a semester of undergraduate research comparing thermal conductivity between the ones Astro mentioned above (except for U3Si). Each has their own quirks (swelling, Hydrogen pickup, dislocations that can arise if you don't form...

Haha, I remember my dosage meter from my uni's lab sent me me dose results for the year. Even though I had left it right by a small source for a while, my dose was still only 0.1 rem.

Are you familiar with the chart of the nuclides, hermtm2? It is a chart that shows all the elements and all isotopes of each element. If you look it up and observe the nuclides around C-14, you should be able to find a common path to it.

Ahhh, you gave him the answer, Quantum!

Be sure to write in your units so that you can stay consistent. Your kept your half-life in years so what units would your decay constant be? 1 curie has a value of a certain number of decays/sec. You should look it up, and see what else you can find about where it came from, it will help...

Light is not a direct consequence of fission or fusion. It's important for you to understand how processes work before trying calculations of any kind. In an atomic explosion and in the sun, surrounding materials are heated and the excitation and returning to lower energy states of the...