ENG201: Chemistry Applications in Engineering Group/Team Number: 9

Group/Team Participants Signature

1. ANGEL EVERLY BELEY

2. KEITH JUSTINE MANALOTO

3. ELLEN SHEEN TASARRA

4. EMIL KYLE DANIEL R. VINELES

Self-Assessment Questions: Module 4.3 Nuclear Chemistry

1. The C-14 content of an ancient piece of wood was found to have three tenths of that in living
trees (indicating 70% of the C-14 had decayed). How old is that piece of wood?
2. Calculate the mass defect and nuclear binding energy per nucleon of Li-7 (atomic mass =
7.016003 amu).
3. What is the half-life of a 100.0 g sample of nitrogen-16 that decays to 12.5 g of nitrogen-16 in
21.6 s?
4. How much energy is lost or gained when a mole of cobalt-60 undergoes beta decay:
2760𝐶𝑜→ − 10𝑒 + 2860𝑁𝑖? The mass of the 2760 𝐶𝑜 atom is 59.933819 amu, and that of a
2860 𝑁𝑖 atom is 59.930788 amu.
5. The time for 99% of a sample of a radioisotope to decay is given by the equation
4.605
𝑡0.99 = 𝑘 seconds. Similarly, the time for 99.9% of a sample of a radioisotope to decay is
6.908
given by 𝑡0.999 = 𝑘
seconds. A sample of pure Polonium-210 is used in a laboratory
experiment. Calculate the time it takes for (a) 99% (b) 99.9% of the mass of the polonium to
decay.