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Q: Determine the energy produced from the fission reaction of Uranium-235 and a neutron, which becomes…

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Q: A piece of bark is made up of carbon. It emits 7000 electrons per minute. Only the carbon 14 isotope…

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Q: After a plant or animal dies, its 14C content decreases with a half-life of 5730 years. If an…

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Q: The nucleus of a particular isotope of beryllium contains 4 protons and 5 neutrons. Which of the…

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Q: How can an electron be ejected from a nucleus in beta decay if it wasn't in the nucleus to begin…

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Q: A sample of radium Ra (atomic mass=224.020 186 u, T12-3.66 days) contains No-3.68 x 1021 nuclei and…

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Q: subjecte bi Chemists studying these elements and the periodic table predict that stable elements may…

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Q: The half-life of a particular element is 330 days. What is its decay constant?

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Q: Consider the Deuterium-Tritium fusion reaction ²H +³H → ˆHe+n How much is the energy released per…

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Q: The complete expression for the decay of the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium may be written as…

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Q: 183 183 W has atomic mass 182.9502245 u. 74 What is the atomic mass number for this nucleus? 183…

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Q: An unknown isotope has an atomic number, Z = 15 and atomic mass number, A = 32. It decays via beta…

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Q: The half-life of this nucleus is 1.0 seconds. For the following times fill in the rest of the chart…

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Q: A uranium-235 nucleus absorbs a neutron and the splits into a bromine-87 nucleus, a lanthanum-146…

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Q: Determine the nucleus density (in kg/m3) of the following four isotopes. 4He (m = 4.00260325415 u)…

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Q: An element of atomic number 83 in a relatively higher energy state decays radioactively to an…

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Half Life

The concept of Half Life has numerous practical applications some of them includes figuring out the effective drug dosage to finding out when a radioactive becomes safe to use. If you look for a career in Nuclear Physics you will need this concept.