Beta Decay

Half-thickness is a useful and accessible introduction to constant fractional decay. Somehow adding extra slices of thickness...

Classroom Activity 14-16

This is a set of three linked activities designed to show how radioactive decay can be modelled. In each case you can discuss...

Classroom Activity 14-16

The diagnostic questions can be used for two main purposes: to encourage students to talk and think through the sources and...

Diagnostic Questions 14-16

It is quite common to see statements along the lines of alpha particles are more ionising than beta , but this is not actually...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

The purpose of this episode is to introduce the lepton family, and also to bring in the idea of anti-particles, which...

Lesson 16-19

Now that your students are familiar with different types of radiation, you can look at the processes by which they are emitted...

Lesson 16-19

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a gamma imaging technique that uses radiotracers that emit positrons, the antimatter...

Classroom Activity 14-16

In matter and nuclear physics, we explain macroscopic behaviours using descriptions of microscopic models. This presents...

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