Lecture 17
Reactor Theory-II

Properties of Bessel Function

  • Note that both J0 and Y0 are oscillating functions with decaying amplitude.
  • The reason for the decay in amplitude can be attributed to the divergence of the coordinate in r direction.
  • Similar to Sine and Cosine, they have multiple roots.
  • The first root of J0 is 2.405.
  • There are some properties of J0 and Y0 which we shall describe below
  • Y0(0) = -∞
  • J0(0) = 1
  • First root of J0 is 2.405, That is J0 (2.405) = 0.
  • Another property of J0 is that