Arrangement of topic and hours to fit students' requirements. Restricted to graduate students engaged in doctoral thesis research. Students register for this subject twice. Students must complete both Work Assignments to receive the academic credit for this subject. Enrollment limited to students in the Engineering Internship Program.
Experiments cover topics ranging from spin dynamics to spectroscopy, and include imaging.
Derivation of point kinetics and dynamic period equations. Overview of light-water reactor startup. Lectures and demonstrations with computer simulation and the use of the MIT Research Reactor. Covers fundamental aspects of reflectometry, including direct theories, data inversion methods, reflectometer instrumentation, and applications. Includes an introduction to theory and applications of small angle scattering since they bear strong similarity to reflectometry.