How Long to Read Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls

How Long Does it Take to Read Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls?

It takes the average reader 14 hours and 16 minutes to read Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls by Rudolf Ernst Peierls

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Description

This book is a collection of the major scientific papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-95), including the Peierls-Frisch Memoranda of 1940 on the feasibility, and the predicted human effects, of an atomic bomb made of uranium-235. His papers range widely in topic. They include much on the fundamentals of solid state physics, the thermal and electric conductivity of materials as a function of temperature T (especially T→0), the interpretation of the de Haas-van Alphen effect observed for a metal in a magnetic field, and the basics of transport theory. Many are on problems in statistical mechanics, including his constructive paper demonstrating the existence of a phase transition for Ising's model for a two-dimensional ferromagnet. In nuclear physics, they include the first calculations (with Bethe) on the photo-disintegration of the deuteron (made in response to a challenge by Chadwick), the Kapur-Peierls theory of resonance phenomena in nuclear reactions, the Bohr-Peierls-Placzek continuum model for complex nuclei (which first explained the narrow resonances observed for low energy neutrons incident on very heavy nuclei), and the Peierls-Thouless variational approach to collective phenomena in nuclei. Several of Peierls's wartime papers, now declassified, are here published for the first time.Brief commentaries on most of the papers in this book were added by Peierls, to indicate subsequent developments and their relationship with other work, or to correct errors found later on. A complete bibliography of his writings is given as an appendix.

How long is Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls?

Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls by Rudolf Ernst Peierls is 836 pages long, and a total of 214,016 words.

This makes it 282% the length of the average book. It also has 262% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 19 hours and 29 minutes to read Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls aloud.

What Reading Level is Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls?

Selected Scientific Papers of Sir Rudolf Peierls is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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