Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics
A graduate-level MIT OpenCourseWare course covering the phenomenology and experimental foundations of nuclear and particle physics. Topics include the fundamental forces and particles, composite particles such as hadrons and nuclei, and the theoretical models used to describe them. The course emphasizes how these models were established experimentally, examining the detectors and accelerator techniques physicists use to probe subatomic structure. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and exams drawn from MIT's physics graduate curriculum, published under a Creative Commons license. No enrollment or certificate is offered since this is a self-paced archive of course materials, but the full set of assignments and readings lets a motivated student work through the material independently, provided they already have a solid grounding in quantum mechanics and electromagnetism.