Connection for AP® Courses Relating to Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics
This text provides a brief introduction to nuclear radioactivity; radiation detection and detectors; substructure of the nucleus; nuclear decay and conservation laws; half-life and activity; binding energy; and tunneling. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- Neutrino
- Gamma rays
- Radiation
- Isotopes
- Alpha particle
- Binding energy
- Nuclear decay
- Nuclear force
- Decay constant
- Half-life
- Radioactive dating
- Alpha decay
- Alpha rays
- Antimatter
- Atomic mass
- Atomic number
- Barrier penetration
- Beta decay
- Beta rays
- Chart of the nuclides
- Daughters
- Decay
- Decay equation
- Decay series
- Electron capture
- Electron capture equation
- Gamma decay
- Geiger tube
- Ionizing radiation
- Magic numbers
- Neutron
- Nuclear radiation
- Nuclear reaction energy
- Nucleons
- Nucleus
- Nuclide
- Parent
- Photomultiplier
- Positron decay
- Protons
- Quantum mechanical tunneling
- Radiation detector
- Radioactivity
- Radius of a nucleus
- Range of radiation
- Scintillators
- Solid-state radiation detectors
- Tunneling
- Electrons antineutrino
- Electrons neutrino