Topic — Structure of the nucleus, radioactivity, fission and fusion.
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22 Nuclear physics
- Alpha, beta, gamma compared
- Applications of radioactivity
- Atoms and activity in a gram of radium
- Activity of cobalt-60
- Banana equivalent dose
- Bomb versus asteroid
- Caesium after Chernobyl
- Fuel for a fission power plant
- The Sun’s hydrogen consumption
- Constituents of the nucleus
- The Aston curve and the direction of energy
- From mass defect to reaction Q-value
- From helium-3 volume to accumulation time
- From the phenomenological law to the exponential
- Radiocarbon dating
- Decay measured in the laboratory
- Mass defect of tritium
- Size and density of the nucleus
- Repeated halving
- Draw the binding energy curve
- Annual dose and equivalent X-rays
- Absorbed, equivalent and effective dose
- Effective dose from different sources
- Binding energy of iron
- Nuclear binding energy
- Worked example — from activity to the age of a find
- Worked example — radon decay in the cellar
- Worked example — more thermonuclear than the Sun
- Science fiction physics: carbon with tenfold half-life
- Science fiction physics: without the strong force
- Science fiction physics: without quantum tunnelling
- Nuclear fission
- Nuclear fusion
- The three types of decay
- The reactor in numbers
- Isotopes, isobars, isotones
- The binding energy curve and iron
- The end of the book
- The strong nuclear force
- Natural radioactive chains
- Exponential law and mean lifetime
- Graph reading: mass defect
- Marie Curie and the birth of radiochemistry
- Why nuclei do not break apart
- Why dose matters
- Why fission is favourable
- Why an excited nucleus emits gamma radiation
- Atomic battery with cobalt-60
- School atomic battery with polonium
- Radon in homes
- Alpha and beta decay schemes
- Parent-daughter decay series
- Relative stability of four nuclei
- Mean lifetime of a mixed sample
- Mean lifetimes compared