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Half-Life
Energy and Thermal Physics Supporting Physics Teaching

Does a nucleus disappear when it decays?

This is an interesting point relating to the limitations of models, which we'd recommend exploring in full with the students:

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Half-Life
Quantum and Nuclear Supporting Physics Teaching

Does the mass halve in a half-life?

What halves during a time period of one half-life? This thinking that underpins this challenge relates closely to the...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Half-Life
Quantum and Nuclear IOP RESOURCES

Gamma cameras

The gamma camera is an imaging technique used to carry out functional scans of the brain, thyroid, lungs, liver, gallbladder...

Classroom Activity 14-16

Half-Life
Quantum and Nuclear IOP Glossary Project

Half-life, radioactive

The half-life of a sample of a radioactive nuclide is defined as the time interval during which half the nuclei in a sample...

Glossary Definition 16-19

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