Radioactivity

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Radioactivity: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Radioactivity, Natural Radioactivity, Artificial Radioactivity, Parent Nuclei, Daughter Nuclei, Displacement Law in Radioactivity, Radioactive Decay Law, Decay Constant, Mean Life of Radioactive Nucleus, etc.

Important Questions on Radioactivity

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Two nuclei have mass numbers in the ratio 1:8. The ratio of their nuclear radii would be:

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How long will a radioactive isotope, whose half life is T years, take for its activity to reduce to 18th of its initial value?

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Two nuclei have mass numbers in the ratio 8 : 125. The ratio of their nuclear radii is:

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The expression for the average life of a radionuclide that shows its relationship with the half – life would be:

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In decay, the terms half-life period and decay constant is used. The relationship between the two is

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A radioactive sample contains 2.2 mg of pure611C which has half-life period of 1224 s. Calculate the number of atoms present initially and the activity when  5 μg of the sample will be left.

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A radioactive sample contains 2.2 mg of pure C611 which has a half-life period of 1224 seconds. Calculate the number of atoms present initially, and the activity when 5 μg of the sample will be left.

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The radioactive decay rate of a radioactive element is found to be 103 disintegration/second at a certain time. If the half life of the elements is one second, the decay rate after one second is ________________ and after three seconds is _____________.

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Two nuclei P and Q have equal number of atoms at t=0. Their half lives are 3 hours and 9 hours respectively. Their ratios of rates of disintegration after 18 hours from the start is

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The half life of polonium is 140 days. In what time will 15 g of polonium be disintegrated out of its initial mass of 16 g?

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After two hours, one sixteenth of the starting amount of a certain radioactive isotope remained undecayed. The half life of isotope is

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A radioactive element X with a half life of 2 hours decays giving a stable element Y. After a time t, the ratio of X to Y atoms is 1:7, then time t is

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In a sample of radioactive material, what percentage of initial number of active nuclei will decay during one mean life?

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The speed of daughter nuclei is

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When radioactive nucleus emits β-particle its atomic number and mass number are respectively

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When radioactive nucleus emits an α-particle then dauter nucleus reduces in atomic number and mass number by

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From the given plot of the decay rate R versus time t of some radioactive nuclei, the half life of the nuclei in hours can be estimated to be

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What is the probability that a radioactive nucleus will not have decayed after a time equal to twice its half-life?

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A radioactive isotope has half-life of 5 years. After how much time is its activity reduced to 3.125% of its original activity? (Answer in years)

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In a radioactive decay chain, the initial nucleus is  90232Th. At the end, there are 6 α-particles and 4β-particles which are emitted. If the end nucleus is ZAX, A and Z are given by: