%0 Journal Article %T Chiral Perturbation Theory and Nuclear Physics %A F. Myhrer %J Physics %D 1997 %I arXiv %X Chiral symmetry serves as a guiding principle in low-energy hadron dynamics. An effective lagrangian, which explicitly breaks chiral symmetry via a small mass term, allows for a systematic method of calculating higher order corrections to tree-level results. This is applied to radiative muon capture on hydrogen, %to extract the weak pseudoscalar form factor, and to proton-proton $\pi^0$ production near threshold. Both processes pose theoretical challenges in light of recent experimental results. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9711053v1