Methodical recommendations

1. Read the text and translate it. Look up the words you do not know in a dictionary

2. Do lexical exercises

3. Asking and answering the questions on this subject

1. Е.И.Курашвили. Английский язык для студентов – физиков.

Москва Астрель. АСТ 2005

2. Е.В. Хомутова. Интенсивный курс английского языка для физиков. Издательство Московского университета 1983

1. to acquire the special text with the aim learning the necessary information.

2. to learn lexical minimum and to use it in practice.

3. to communicate in English with partner on this subject

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1. On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb destroyed the Japa­nese city of Hiroshima.

Since then the peoples of the world have been eager for news of anything

concerning atoms. We have learned to think of the atom as a very small piece of

matter that can be broken into even smaller pieces; we have become familiar with

many sub-atomic particles, like protons and neutrons, positrons, mesons and

electrons.
2. Inside the atom, these particles are rotating one about the other. The atom, which
was long regarded as a very small piece of "solid" matter, has become a miniature
solar system. In its centre is the "sun", a heavy nucleus which contains the bulk of
the sub-atomic particles. Around this nucleus are rotating the electrons,, like planets
round their sun.
3. Much of the importance of the atom lies in its nucleus. It is the nucleus of the atom
that is split; it is the nucleus that releases new types of particle from time to time; and
it is the nucleus that provides us with atomic energy.