Updated:  10/14/04
                  
                     Chapter 30 Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity


          A. Instruction to students:
                        1)  Homework:
                                a)  Read carefully all sections from Sections 30-1 through -10.
                                b) All Examples from Example 30-1 through Example 30-8, and
                                c)  Do all sample multiple choice problems.                         
                        2) All masses of particles and nuclei will be given during the exam,
                                together with the conversion relations among the units,
                                    1 u = 1.6605 x 10^(-27) kg
                                          = 931.5 MeV / c^2.
                           The following formulas are also given:
                                       \lambda T_1/2 = 0.693
                                       N = N_0 exp(- \lambda t)   
                                       \Delta N / \Delta t = - \lambda N

          B. Biomedical (and technological) application
                     Radioactive dating, Section 30-11.
                          Detection of radiation, Section 30-12 (as optional study.)


          C. Lectures and study guideline
                          "Summary" in p939 of the textbook gives a very good list of  the terms
                          that you should be familiar with.  Go through this "Summary" and Examples
                          1 - 10.   When you do the numerical calculations, make sure to keep sufficient
                          significant places of the numerical values that you deal with, because the
                          quantities that you are trying to find are often differences of two similar values.