Physics for Radiation Protection
Subtitle: A Handbook
Edition: 2 Rev Enl edition
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: September 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 844
ISBN-13: 9783527406111
Subjects: Occupational / industrial health & safety; Radiography; Science; Science/Mathematics; Science / Physics; Physics
Description: "Designed for readers with limited as well as basic science backgrounds, the handbook presents clear, thorough and up-to-date explanations of radiation physics and the major discoveries that underpin it. Extensive discussion is provided of radioactivity, including sources, materials and decay schemes for about 100 of the most common radionuclides encountered by practitioners."--Jacket.