Radioactivity
Radioactivity: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Parent Nuclei, Daughter Nuclei, Change in Atomic Number after Alpha Decay, Change in Mass Number after Alpha Decay, Change in Atomic Number after Beta Decay, Gamma Ray Emission, Radioactive Decay Law, etc.
Important Questions on Radioactivity
Two nuclei have mass numbers in the ratio . The ratio of their nuclear radii would be:

The plot of the activity of a radioactive species versus time would be:

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

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

A radioactive sample contains of pure which has half-life period of . Calculate the number of atoms present initially and the activity when of the sample will be left.

In the Uranium radioactive series, the initial nucleus is and the final nucleus is . When the Uranium nucleus decays to lead, the number of particles emitted is _______________ and the number of particles emitted is _______________.

What is nuclear fusion give example?

How do you find the daughter nuclei?

What is the velocity of beta particle?

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

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

Penetrating power of Gamma radiation is very low.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?
i. particles are photons.
ii. Penetrating power of radiation is very low.
iii. Ionization power is maximum for α rays.
iv. Penetrating power of radiation is very high.

A stationary radioactive nucleus of mass units disintegrates into an -particle of mass units and residual nucleus of mass units. If the kinetic energy of the -particle is , then the kinetic energy of the residual nucleus is

The rays travel at the speed of light.

_____ was the only woman to win Nobel Prize in two different fields.

In a sample initially, there are an equal number of atoms of two radioactive isotopes and . days later, the number of atoms of is twice that of . The half-life of is days. What is the half-life (in days) of isotope ?

When an alpha particle is emitted from an unstable nucleus, the atomic mass number of the nucleus

The decay constant of a radioactive substance is . What is the half-life of it in Giga seconds? ()

If the amount of radioactive substance is , then according to Rutherford-Soddy law, the rate of radioactive decay is proportional to
