"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it. ... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."
Structure of nuclei. Nucleons. Isotopes.
Binding energy. Energy released in nuclear reactions. Average binding energy per nucleon.
Unstable nuclei. Radioactivity. Alpha, Beta and Gamma Decays. Half-life in radioactivity.
Nature of radioactive radiations. Nuclear reactions. Conservation of nucleon number.
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Chain reaction. Nuclear reactor. Controlling nuclear reactions.
Fundamental interactions in nature.