Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics

Abstract

The present chapter is an introduction to various scientific and technological fields. It is a beginning step to trail further study in this book. The first chapter specifies the contemporary idea and fundamental understandings of nuclear physics, which is necessary to develop the rest of the studies in this domain. The present chapter deals with an introduction to nuclei, constituents of the nucleus and its properties, mass defects and binding energy, nuclear reactions, the Q-value of nuclear reactions, and the discovery of the neutron and nuclear chain reactions.