Updated:  10/14/04
                  
                     Chapter 31 Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses
                                   of Radiation


          A. Instruction to students:
                        1)  Homework:
                                a) Read carefully all Sections from Section 31-1 through Section 31-4.
                                b) Carefully go over Examples 31-4 and -5, and
                                b) 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

          B. Biomedical (and technological) application
                     Nuclear fission and fusion, nuclear reactor, Sections 31-2 and -3.
                          The followings are as optional study:
                          Radiation dosimetry and radiation therapy, Sections 31-5 and -6.
                          Traces and imaging in medicine, Section 31-7.
                          Emission tomography, Section 31-8.
                          Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance
                          imaging (MRI), Section 31-9.


          C. Lectures and study guideline
                          Learn the basic nuclear property that leads to nuclear fission and fusion, and
                          how these processes occur.  
                          Learn how to handle (or to understand) equations describing nuclear reactions,
                          but you are not required to memorize various nuclear reactions.
                          Familialize various terms and units of radiation and dosimetry: curie, rad, gray,
                          rem, sievert, RBE, and QF.