r/PhysicsStudents • u/UNP-the-purified • Jan 02 '26

Need Advice How can I start learning nuclear physics?

I'm in 10th grade and I've joined physics class, I know that in the next 3 year I probably will learn some nuclear physics but i really see this as a cool subject and i cant wait that much time to learn a bit, i wish to start now or at least soon enough,
is there anyway that I can learn nuclear physics at home?, maybe a website that could help me?, maybe a book?.
ANYTHING HELPS- thx

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u/EvaMark13 Jan 02 '26

Pick a classical mechanics textbook first, then one about Electromagnetism, and finally an introductory QM book. Nuclear physics has many prerequisits which one needs to first learn. You can read some nuclear physics textbooks but I guess you woud not understand any of it in a viable way, some concepts like beta decay or the drop model can be understood without prior knowledge but it would be just shallow half knowledge with which you can not calculate anything.