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Atomic physics 17.6.19

Section – A

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2. The diagram shows a radioactivity experiment.

When a piece of paper is used as the absorber, the count rate drops to the background count
rate.
What radiation is the source emitting?

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4. A radioactive source emits radiation that can pass through a sheet of paper but not through
thick aluminium.

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8. The half-life of a radioactive substance is 5 hours. A sample is tested and found to contain
0.48 g of the substance.
How much of the substance was present in the sample 20 hours before the sample was
tested?

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16. A small amount of a radioactive isotope contains 72 billion unstable nuclei. The half-life of the
isotope is 4 hours.
How many unstable nuclei would remain after 12 hours?

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19. During a fire in a laboratory storeroom, some radioactive material was spilled. A firefighter
detected radiation through the lead-lined walls of the storeroom. The radiation was emitted by
the radioactive material.

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25. The diagram shows five atoms in a radioactive substance. The atoms each give out an α-
particle.

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26. The count rates of four radioactive sources were measured at the same time on three
consecutive days.
Which source has a half-life of two days?

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31. The half-life of a radioactive substance is 5 hours. A sample is tested and found to contain
0.48 g of the substance.
How much of the substance was present in the sample 20 hours before the sample was
tested?

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35. A sample of radioactive uranium has mass 1 g. Another sample of the same material has
mass 2 g.
Which property is the same for both samples?

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38. The diagram shows an experiment to monitor the radiation from a radioactive gas. The
counter readings are corrected for background radiation.

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46. A radioactive substance has a half-life of 2 weeks. At the beginning of an investigation the
substance emits 3000 β-particles per minute.
How many β-particles will it emit per minute after 6 weeks?

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48. A radioactive element has a half-life of 70 s.

The number of emissions per second, N, of a sample of the element is measured at a certain
time.
What was the number of emissions per second 70 s earlier?

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Section – B

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