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Episode 508: Preparation for the Radioactivity Topic
This topic from the Institute of Physics, allow students to explore the topic of radiation. There are a series of learning episodes, each being a self-contained unit of learning that takes typically one or two lessons.
The learning episodes in this topic are:
Episode 509: Radioactive Background and Detectors
Episode 510: Properties of radiations
Episode 511: Absorption experiments
Episode 512: Nuclear equations
This topic will give students the opportunity to:
1. work safely with laboratory sources of ionising radiation.
2. understand the processes of radioactive decay.
3. use standard notation to represent nuclear processes.
4. solve problems involving half-life and exponential decay equations.
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