Edexcel International AS and A level Physics XPH11/YPH11 · 141
Spontaneous and random nature of nuclear decay
- Code
- 141
- In
- U5.4 Nuclear Decay
- Topic
- U5 Thermodynamics, Radiation, Oscillations and Cosmology
- Course
- International AS and A level Physics XPH11/YPH11
- Board
- Edexcel
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Points in U5.4 Nuclear Decay
- 133 Nuclear binding energy and mass deficit
- 134 The atomic mass unit
- 135 Fusion, fission and binding energy per nucleon
- 136 Conditions for nuclear fusion
- 137 Background radiation
- 138 Properties of alpha, beta and gamma radiation
- 139 Nuclear equations
- 140 Core practical 15: absorption of gamma radiation by lead
- 141 Spontaneous and random nature of nuclear decay
- 142 Half-life and radioactive decay equations