SUBJECT

Title

Physics of environmental radiations

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semester 1

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

The radiations play decisive roles in shaping the human environments. The aim of the course is to discuss the main properties of the radiations, to analyze their major properties, their effects to the biological surrounding and the effects for human beings. The course will discuss the ionizing radiations and their environmental characteristics. We shall go through the whole electromagnecic spectrum and even through the corpuscular radiations.

Readings
  • Kiss Ádám: lecture notes, available on Internet,
  • W.S.C. Williams: Nuclear and Particle Physics (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991), in English
  • T. Mayer-Kuckuk: Kernphysik (Teubner-Studienbuch, Stuttgart, 1979, 1984, 1992, 2002), in German