38
th
Session: Modern Physics III
Nuclear Fusion & Exponential RA Decay
• Sunday Test
• Recap: Nuclear Fission (nuclear fuel, chain reaction, critical size)
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear reactor & breeder reactors
• Fast breeder reaction
• Nuclear fusion
• Exponential Radioactive Decay
– Units of radioactivity
– Rutherford-Soddy theory of Radioactivity
– Half life, mean life
– RA equilibrium, rate of accumulation, simultaneous decay
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Nuclear Reactor
Fast Breeder Reactor
Nuclear fusion
• Units of radioactivity
• Rutherford – Soddy Theory of Radioactive Decay
– Nuclear phenomena
– RA properties v/s chemical properties
– Random process
Radioactive Statistical Decay Law
