2. PHASES PHASE 1 STRUCTURE OF ATOM PHASE 2 BINDING ENERGY AND MASS DEFECT PHASE 3 NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY, ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVITY & NEUTRON BOMBARDMENT. PHASE 4 FISSION AND FUSION. PHASE 5 CHAIN REACTION,CRITICAL MASS AND REFLECTORS.
3. SCOPE TO FAMILIARISE YOU WITH THE STRUCTURE OF ATOM, BINDING ENERGY AND MASS DEFECT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL RADIO ACTIVITY,FISSION, FUSION, CHAIN REACTION, CRITICAL MASS AND REFLECTORS.
5. ELEMENT AN ELEMENT IS A SUBSTANCE WHICH CANNOT BE SPLIT UP INTO TWO OR MORE SIMPLER SUBSTANCES BY THE USUAL CHEM METHODS OF APPLYING HEAT, LT OR ELECTRIC ENERGY. AN ELEMENT IS MADE UP OF ATOMS, ALL HAVING SAME ATOMIC NUMBER.
6. A MOLECULE IS THE SMALLEST PARTICLE OF A SUBSTANCE ( ELEMENT OR COMPOUND) WHICH HAS THE PROPERTIES OF THAT SUBSTANCE AND CAN EXIST IN FREE STATE. MOLECULE
15. UNIT OF ATOMIC MASS UNIT OF ATOMIC MASS OR ATOMIC MASS UNIT (AM U) IS DEFINED AS 1/16 OF THE MASS OF OXYGEN ATOM AND IS EQUAL TO 1.66X10 -24 GRAMS
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21. EINSTEIN'S MASS ENERGY RELATIONSHIP E = MC 2 E = ENERGY IN ERGS – (10 7 ERGS = 1 JOULE ) M = MASS IN GRAMS C = VELOCITY OF LIGHT = 3 x 10 10 CM/SEC ERG - WORK DONE BY A FORCE OF 1 DYNE WHEN ITS POINT OF APPLICATION MOVES BY ONE CM IN THE DIRECTION OF THE FORCE.
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36. Gamma rays, or high energy photons, are emitted from the nucleus of an atom when it undergoes radioactive decay. The energy of the gamma ray accounts for the difference in energy between the original nucleus and the decay products. Gamma rays typically can have about the same energy as a high energy X ray. Each radioactive isotope has a characteristic gamma-ray energy. GAMMA RAYS
49. HALF - LIFE The time taken by half of the atoms of a RA element to disintegrate is called its half life. After half life, the radioactivity of an element also becomes half of the original value. The half life of Ra is about 1600 yrs, which means that a given sample of Ra will disintegrate half in 1600 yrs. Eg, if we start with 1 gm of Ra today, then half gm of it will disintegrate in 1600 yrs. After another 1600 yrs half of remains will have disintegrated and so on.
62. FISSION IS A PROCESS , THE REACTING NUCLEUS SPLITS INTO PARTS OF ROUGHLY EQUAL MASS, BOTH OF WHICH HAVE MUCH LOWER ATOMIC NOS AND MASS NOS THAN THE ORIGINAL NUCLEUS. THE REACTION IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE RELEASE OF ENORMOUS QTY OF ENERGY AND VERY IMP, THE EXPULSION OF ONE OR MORE NEUTRONS.
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68. CHAIN REACTION IT IS THE PROCESS IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF NEUTRONS KEEP ON MULTIPLYING RAPIDLY (IN A GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION) DURING FISSION TILL THE ENTIRE FISSIONABLE MATERIAL IS EXHAUSTED