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Particles and Radiation Flashcards

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Isotope

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Atoms with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons

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Carbon dating

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Calculating the percentage of of carbon-14 in an object and using the half life to calculate an approximate age

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Strong Nuclear Force

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  • Keeps nuceli stable by counteracting the electrostatic force of repulsion between protons.
  • Only acts on nucleons
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4
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SNF Range

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Attractive up to 3fm
Repulstive below 0.5fm

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Unstable Nuclei

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  • Nuclei with too many protons or neutrons or both.
  • SNF not strong enough to keep them stable so they will decay
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Alpha Decay

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  • Only occurs in large nuclei with too many neutrons and protons
  • Releases a helium nucleus (2 proton, 2 neutron)
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Beta Minus Decay

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  • Occurs in nuclei that are neutron rich
  • Proton number increases by 1
  • Neutron decays into a proton
  • Electron is released (not from a shell)
  • Electron neutrino is released
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Discovery of Neutrinos

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Energy levels were not the same after a beta minus decay, energy was not conserved. Lead to the hypothesis of neutrinos

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Particles and Antiparticles have the same…

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Same rest energy and mass, everything is opposite sign

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Annihilation

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  • When a particle and its antiparticle collide
  • Their masses are converted into energy
  • This energy and kinetic energy release photons in opposite directions to conserve momentum
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PET scanner

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Positrons are introduced into the patient and then they annihilate with electrons emitting gamma photons which are easily detected

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Pair Production

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  • Photon is converted into equal amount of matter and antimatter
  • Only occur when photon has a greater energy than the 2 particles
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Exchange Particle

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Particle that carry energy and momentum between particles experiencing a force

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Strong Force: Exchange Particle and Range

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Gluon
3 x10 ^-15

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Weak Force: Exchange Particle and Range

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W boson (+ or -)
10^-18

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Electromagnetic Force: Exchange Particle and Range

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Virtual Photon
Infinite Range

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Leptons

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  • Do not experience strong nuclear force
  • Fundamental (cant be broken down)

electron, positron, electron neutrino, muon neutrino

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Hadrons

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  • Formed of quarks
  • Experience SNF
  • Baryons or Mesons
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Baryons

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  • Hadron
  • Formed of 3 quarks

proton, neutron

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Mesons

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  • Hadrons
  • 1 quark, 1 antiquark

Pion, Kaon

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Strange Particles

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Particles produced by SNF but decay by the WNF

Kaons decay into pions

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Quark Combination: Proton

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uud

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Quark Combination: Neutron

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ddu

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Quark Combination: pion 0

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uu* or dd*

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Quark Combination: pion +

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ud*

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Quark Combination: pion -

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du*

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Quark Combination: Kaon 0

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ds*

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Quark Combination: Kaon +

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us*

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Quark Combination: Kaon -

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su*

30
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Photoelectric effect

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Photoelectrons are emitted from the surface of a metal after light above the threshold frequency is shone on it

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Photon Model of Light

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  • EM waves travel in packets called photons
  • each electron absorbs 1 photon
  • if intensity is increased and frequency is above threshold frequency, more PE are emitted
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Work function

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The minimum enery required for electrons to be enitted from the surface of a metal

33
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Stopping Potential

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  • The potential difference needed to be applied across the metal to stop the photoelectrons with max KE.
  • KEmax = e V
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Excitation

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  • Electrons gain energy from collisions with free electrons causing then to move up an energy level
  • It will quickly return to original energy level (de-excite to ground state) and release the energy it gained in the form of a photon

(me when physics is over)

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Ionisation

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  • When an electron gains enough energy to be removed from an atom entirely
  • Occurs when energy of free electron > ionisation energy
36
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Flurescent Tubes

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  • Voltage is applied a tube filled with murcury vapour
  • Accelerates free electrons in the tube which collide with murcury atoms making them ionised
  • More free electrons are released
  • The excited electrons dexcite and release photons in the UV range
  • The flurescent coating on the inside of the tube absorb the UV and excites the electrons in the coating
  • then when they de-excite they release photons of visible light
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Electron Volt (1eV)

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Energy gained by one electron when passing through a potential difference of 1V

38
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Wave Particle Duality

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  • Light has both wave and particle properties
  • Light acts as a wave: diffraction and interference
  • Light acts as a particle: photoelectric effect
39
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De Brogile Theory

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If light can have particle properties then particles can have wave like properties.

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