Quiz 2
Assigned: 5
March 2016
Due: 10 March 2016
2nd Due date: 14 March
2016
Lecture 4: Alpha Decay
Lecture 5: Beta Decay
Lecture 6: Gamma Decay
Lecture 7: Fission
Use lecture notes, textbooks, Chart of the Nuclides, Table of the
Isotopes, and web pages. Use the chart
of the nuclides as your primary dataset for isotope half-life. Show your work or references on a separate
page and save electronically. Submission
of the work is not required for the 1st due date. Please
use 3 significant digits for your answers.
For scientific notation please use X.XXEX (i.e, 1230 as 1.23E3)
The first set of answers are due 10 March 2016. The answers will be posted on 11 March 2016. A second set of answers with corrected errors are due 14 March 16.
Just submitted the quiz. Question 2 gave me a hell of a time, but yay for spreadsheets.
ReplyDeletesorry about that. I will consider limit these type of questions in the future.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Lena, it was a bit tedious and hard to keep track of all the values but excel really helped. The only thing is that my plot did not come out completely linear (probably expected from experimental data) with r^2 of .993. Does this mean that there is a range acceptable for A and B?
ReplyDeleteYes there is a range. I get
ReplyDeleteA= -56.0 -+ 2.5
B = 5140 +- 210
As long as you are within this general region you are good. Any yes excel is a great help!
I've submitted the quiz. I was just wondering if you could explain the term internal conversion electron?
ReplyDeleteJust submitted the quiz!
ReplyDeleteFinished the quiz and fixed a couple calculations for the Geiger Nuttall questions.
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