College Physics

Figure 31.32The wave function representing a quantum mechanical particle must vary smoothly, going from within the nucleus (to t ...

activity: alpha decay: alpha rays: antielectron: antimatter: atomic mass: atomic number: barrier penetration: becquerel: beta de ...

isotopes: magic numbers: mass number: neutrino: neutron: nuclear radiation: nuclear reaction energy: nucleons: nucleus: nuclide: ...

A nuclide is a specific combination of protons and neutrons, denoted by Z AX Nor simply AX, Zis the number of protons or atomi ...

31.6 Binding Energy The binding energy (BE) of a nucleus is the energy needed to separate it into individual protons and neutro ...

18.In a3×10 9 -year-old rock that originally contained some^238 U, which has a half-life of4.5×10 9 years, we expect to find som ...

Problems & Exercises 31.2 Radiation Detection and Detectors 1.The energy of 30.0eVis required to ionize a molecule of the ga ...

28.αdecay producing^208 Pb. The parent nuclide is in the decay series produced by^232 Th, the only naturally occurring isotope o ...

half-lives, and calculate the activity of such a vase assuming it has 2.00 g of uranium in it. Neglect the activity of any daugh ...

(^238) U.) Note that (^238) Uhas even numbers of both protons and neutrons. Is theBE /Aof^238 Usignificantly different from that ...

32 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS Figure 32.1Tori Randall, Ph.D., curator for the Department of Physical Anthropology a ...

Introduction to Applications of Nuclear Physics Applications of nuclear physics have become an integral part of modern life. Fro ...

Medical Application Table 32.1lists certain medical diagnostic uses of radiopharmaceuticals, including isotopes and activities t ...

Note thatTable 32.1lists many diagnostic uses for99mTc, where “m” stands for a metastable state of the technetium nucleus. Perha ...

Figure 32.7A PET system takes advantage of the two identicalγ-ray photons produced by positron-electron annihilation. Theseγrays ...

(1.00 J)/(2.00 kg) = 0.500 J/kg = 50.0 rad, (32.3) and the unaffected tissue would have a zero rad dose. While calculating radia ...

Table 32.2Relative Biological Effectiveness Type and energy of radiation RBE[1] X-rays 1 γrays 1 βrays greater than 32 keV 1 βra ...

If a person receives a dose of 1 rem, his risk each year of dying from radiation-induced cancer is 10 in a million and that risk ...

time a person is exposed to a given source, the smaller is the dose received by the person. Doses from most medical diagnostics ...

Since the activity of the source is given, we can calculate the number of decays, multiply by the energy per decay, and convert ...