Nuclear Physics

Useful websites

ABC of Nuclear Science
A comprehensive website which covers most of what we need

Nuclear Physics
A website explaining the key facts on this topic

Nuclear Fission
An excellent page with animations. Good syllabus coverage

Marie Curie
A brief life story of this amazing woman

Cloud Chamber
Video footage of this experiment

Lesson Activities

Shockwave game about use of a GM tube

Modes of Decay Power Point
A useful powerpoint which shows atomic changes for each type of decay

Radioactive Decay Equations:
notes and questions from S-cool!

Carbon-14 dating
A research activity

Probing Matter
A table for you to fill in

Game about probing the structure of matter

Worked example for distance of closest approach

Mass and Energy

Listen to a clip of Einstein explaining his theory E=mc²

Ghost Town
A sobering task which studies what happened to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor

Fukushima nuclear alert information

Nuclear Power: materials
This is the link to the lesson plan containing use and production of electricity, carbon dioxide growth and the Kyoto agreement.

Types of nuclear reactors
make sure you are familiar with the more common designs

Radioactive Decay 1
A useful applet on Decay

Radioactive Decay 2
An applet showing the half life of different isotopes

Chain Reaction 1
Interactive applet of a chain reaction

Chain Reaction 2
Here you can  control the reaction with neutron absorbers

Nuclear Fusion
An animation showing fusion in the Sun

Nuclear Reactor simulation
Control a nuclear power plant...if you can!

Straightforward Reactor Simulator
with explanations of the different components

Students work

Poster - making task

Gareth's Powerpoint
on types of nuclear reactors

Yr 13 2008 Nuclear Power Compilation
For your notes!

Teacher's notes

N-Z Graph
A graph showing the neutron excess for the stable nuclei

Power Point on Decay of Isotopes

Nuclear Theory PPt

Medical Radiosotopes Powerpoint

Very good notes
on electron diffraction and distance of closest approach

Radioactivity multi-choice quiz from S-cool!

Nuclear Power Quiz