Radioactivity
Radioactivity: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Radioactivity, Zone of Stability, Alpha Particle and its Properties, Beta Particle and its Properties, Gamma Rays and its Properties, Difference between Alpha & Beta and Gamma Radiations etc.
Important Questions on Radioactivity
An α-particle of energy 10 Mev is scattered through 180o by a fixed uranium nucleus. Calculate the order of distance of the closest approach?

If an α-particle collides head-on with a nucleus, what is its impact parameter?

In which of the following, no change in mass number of the daughter nuclei takes place?
(i) decay (ii) decay (iii) decay (iv) Neutron decay

In the chain reaction.
energy
neutrons and energy produced at th step will be

Which of the following is electromagentic wave:

has a half-life of 22 years with respect to radioactive decay. The decay follows two parallel paths: and . If the percentage of the two daughter nuclides are and , respectively the decay constant (in ) for path is closest to

At radioactive equilibrium, the ratio between number of atoms of radioactive elements A and B is . If the half-life period of A is then the half-life of B is

How many numbers of neutrons will be present in newly formed compound when two particle and one particle are emitted from ?

The number of neutrons accompanying the formation of and from the adsorption of a slow neutron by followed by nuclear reaction is.

A photon of hard gamma radiation knocks a proton out of the nucleus to form.
