Radioactivity

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Tutorials and Problem Sets

Tutorials

  1. Historical
    • The Discovery of Radioactivity
    • Discovery of Alpha and Beta Decay
    • The Discovery of Alpha Particle Scattering

  2. Radioactive Decay Types & Writing Their Equations
    • Alpha Decay and Beta Decay
    • Positron Decay and Electron Capture
    • Gamma Decay
    • Neutron Emission & Capture
    • Proton Emission & Capture
    • Spontaneous Fission

  3. Other
    • Half-Life (10) (15) (15)
    • Half-Life: Carbon-14 only
    • Half-Life: U-238 only
    • Writing Nuclear Reactions (10) (15)
    • Writing Fission Equations
    • Writing Fusion Equations
    • The Nuclear Symbol: Atomic Number and Mass Number
    • General Radioactivity Questions

Other Resources

Videos

  1. An analogy for half-life
  2. Half-life I: an alternate solution to a worksheet problem
  3. Half-life II: a problem which measures decay in counts rather than grams
  4. Half-life III: a problem which measures decay in disintegrations rather than grams
  5. Half-life IV: a problem which measures decay in beta particles rather than grams
  6. Half-life V: a problem which measures decay in disintegrations rather than grams
  7. Radioactive decay: a problem which uses third-life rather than half-life
  8. Alpha Decay I
  9. Alpha Decay II
  10. Beta Decay I
  11. Beta Decay II
  12. Nuclear equation: writing a balanced fission equation
  13. Radioactive decay sequence

Links

  1. Japanese man identified as a survivor of TWO atomic bombs. He passed away Jan. 4, 2010
  2. The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Isotopes Project

Miscellaneous

  1. A Lecture Graphic on Alpha Decay
  2. A Lecture Graphic on Beta Decay
  3. A Lecture Graphic on Electron Capture
  4. A Lecture Graphic on Positron Decay
  5. A Lecture Graphic on the Nuclear Symbol
  6. Lecture notes on the mathematics of radioactive decay
  7. A time line discussion on the discovery of radioactivity and isotopes
  8. Building An Atomic Bomb
  9. The Trinity Site
  10. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 

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