Radioactivity

Physics, SSC-KPK Class 10. This chapter is split into 54 topics and has 1,236 practice questions. The topics covered are listed below, followed by 10 free sample questions from the chapter.

Topics in this chapter

1. Nuclear reactions 22 questions
2. Half-life: meaning and graph 23 questions
3. Half-life: finding the half-life from data 24 questions
4. Carbon-14 dating calculations 24 questions
5. Atom and atomic nucleus 23 questions
6. Balancing nuclear reactions 28 questions
7. Safety measures against radiation 23 questions
8. Nuclides and isotopes 20 questions
9. Half-life: number of half-lives and elapsed time 26 questions
10. Radioisotopes and the isotopes of carbon 21 questions
11. Alpha emissions 21 questions
12. Alpha decay: daughter nuclide 22 questions
13. Worked examples of alpha, beta and gamma decay 24 questions
14. Radioisotopes in medicine: diagnosis 22 questions
15. Counting protons, neutrons and electrons 28 questions
16. Background radiation and its sources 22 questions
17. Atomic number, mass number and neutron number 22 questions
18. Beta decay: composition of the daughter 24 questions
19. Alpha decay: the new element formed 22 questions
20. Nuclear fusion 21 questions
21. Exercise questions of Unit 18 25 questions
22. Discovery of radioactivity and early history 21 questions
23. Half-life: fraction of a sample remaining 26 questions
24. Fission calculations 29 questions
25. Beta emissions 20 questions
26. Half-life: mass of the sample left 28 questions
27. Key points and definitions of Unit 18 29 questions
28. Beta decay: the new element formed 24 questions
29. Beta decay: daughter nuclide 24 questions
30. Gamma emissions 21 questions
31. Radioisotopes in agriculture 20 questions
32. Random nature of radioactive decay 21 questions
33. Identifying the emitted particle in a decay equation 28 questions
34. Comparison of alpha, beta and gamma radiation 21 questions
35. Radiation in magnetic and electric fields 20 questions
36. Hazards of radioactive materials 21 questions
37. Nuclear transmutation 21 questions
38. Nuclear force and nuclear stability 21 questions
39. Alpha decay: composition of the daughter 22 questions
40. Half-life examples, assignments and exercise problems 24 questions
41. Relative ionizing abilities 20 questions
42. Relative penetrating abilities 23 questions
43. Nuclide symbol notation 20 questions
44. Decay series: counting alpha and beta emissions 26 questions
45. Fission chain reaction 20 questions
46. Radiation therapy 20 questions
47. Units of activity: curie and becquerel 25 questions
48. Nuclear fission 24 questions
49. Half-life: percentage and number of atoms 26 questions
50. Alpha decay rule and equation 20 questions
51. Food preservation and sterilising with radiation 21 questions
52. Fission compared with fusion 21 questions
53. Radioactive dating and carbon-14 21 questions
54. Meaning of radioactivity 21 questions