General properties of the nucleus, Nuclear stability, Stability line and the table of nuclei, Binding energy, the liquid drop model, Fermi gas model, Shell model, Nuclear decay law, Half-life, Mean life-time and radioactivity, Decay schemes, Production of radioactive materials, Alpha decay, Beta decay, Gamma decay, Nuclear structure models, Nuclear reactions and safety applications, Accelerators.
Main Textbook : • Introductory Nuclear Physics, H. S. Krane (1987). • Elementary Modern Physics, Atam P. Arya Subsidiary Books : • Elements of Nuclear Physics, W. Burcham, Longman (1979). • Introduction to nuclear and particle physics, by A. Das and T. Febel, (2003). • An introduction to nuclear physics by W.N. Cottingham and D.A. Greenwood, Cambridge University Press (2001).