Apply Wien’s displacement law for black body radiation.
Apply Einstein’s photoelectric equation.
Describe the behavior of electrons in terms of deBroglie’s model of matter waves.
Calculate the binding energy of a nucleus.
Identify each of the components of radiation
that are emitted by the nucleus through natural radioactive decay and
describe
the basic properties of each.
State and apply to the solution of related
problems, the formula that expresses decay rate as a function of decay
constant
and number of radioactive nuclei and also apply the exponential formula
that
expresses the number of remaining radioactive nuclei as a function of
elapsed
time, decay constant or half-life, and the initial number of nuclei.
From a graph (rectangular coordinates or
semi-log) of radioactive decay (e.g., % activity vs. time) determine
the
approximate half-life.
Write out typical equations to illustrate the
processes of transmutation by alpha and beta
decay and make calculations of the kinetic
energies involved.
Write out in equation form a typical sequence
of events leading to gamma decay.