Topic 7 general comments
Students really like furthering their understanding of nuclear interactions. There is so much "unknown" surrounding radiation, nuclear power and nuclear bombs that giving them insight to this seems to be satisfying. Feynman diagrams tend to be a challenge.
TOpic 7.1 - Discrete energy and radioactivity
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Chris Doner
Veritasium video on background radiation and radioactive places
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Discrete Energy and Radioactivity Playlist (See Videos 1-3 and 5)
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- Using different gas tubes and a spectrum analyzer to identify gasses using emission spectra
- Using a Geiger counter to demonstrate background radiation - Using a Geiger counter and a bunch of bananas over a period of time to demonstrate banana radioactivity - Use M&Ms and set a half life interval to demonstrate a random process acting in a predictable way (have the students remove the "decayed" M&Ms that no longer have an "m" on them after each half life). I do this with each student having a 300+ gram bag of M&Ms and the students love it. |
Topic 7.2 - Nuclear reactions
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Chris Doner
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Nuclear Reactions Playlist (See Videos 4 and 6-8)
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- Coming later
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Topic 7.3 - The structure of matter
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Chris Doner
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- Coming later
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topic 7 Formative assessment
| topic_7_problem_set_2016.doc |
| topic_7_-_additional_questions.pdf |
| topic_7_-_additional_questions_-_answers.pdf |
| topic_7_-_auto-test.pdf |