Nuclear and Particle Physics

Physics, HSSC-Punjab Second Year. This chapter is split into 47 topics and has 1,107 practice questions. The topics covered are listed below, followed by 10 free sample questions from the chapter.

Topics in this chapter

1. Balancing nuclear equations 24 questions
2. Atomic mass unit, mass defect and the meaning of binding energy 21 questions
3. Radioactive tracers and their uses 22 questions
4. Composition of nuclei 22 questions
5. Half-life problems with real medical and natural isotopes 28 questions
6. Binding energy per nucleon: totals, averages and mass defect in u 26 questions
7. Exponential decay law 26 questions
8. Activity, decay constant and number of nuclei 24 questions
9. Fission energy and reactor power 26 questions
10. Radioactive tracers: principles, medicine, agriculture and treatment 22 questions
11. Energy released in nuclear reactions 24 questions
12. Radioactive decay, activity and half-life 30 questions
13. Annihilation and particle physics 20 questions
14. Exercise questions and conceptual reasoning on nuclear physics 22 questions
15. Mass defect and binding energy (numerical) 28 questions
16. Nuclide notation: protons, neutrons and nucleons 24 questions
17. Radioisotopes and their medical uses: which isotope? 21 questions
18. Count rate, background and half-life 22 questions
19. Fission: discovery, products and energy release 22 questions
20. Fission and fusion compared 22 questions
21. Half-life: examples, meaning and the decay curve 27 questions
22. Tracers, alpha particles and annihilation photons (numerical) 22 questions
23. Decay constant and half-life 22 questions
24. Half-life: number of nuclei and mass remaining 28 questions
25. Multiple-choice and short-answer ideas of the nuclear physics exercise 21 questions
26. Binding energy per nucleon curve: shape and meaning 24 questions
27. Alpha particle speed and the frequency, wavelength and momentum of gamma photons 23 questions
28. Mass-energy conversion in the Sun and in stars 22 questions
29. Rutherford, Chadwick and the discovery of nuclear constituents 23 questions
30. The nucleus and nuclide notation 21 questions
31. Nuclear fusion 21 questions
32. Annihilation, accelerators and elementary particles 22 questions
33. Chain reaction, critical mass and controlled fission 23 questions
34. Atoms in a sample and its activity 22 questions
35. Fusion: conditions, reactions and experiments 24 questions
36. Fusion energy: reactions, energy per nucleon and mass converted 24 questions
37. Mass-energy equivalence (numerical) 20 questions
38. Mass defect and binding energy 23 questions
39. Reactor power, efficiency and fuel consumption 26 questions
40. Nuclear reactor: components, fuel and power stations 28 questions
41. Nuclear waste: types, dangers and storage 22 questions
42. Radioactive decay: random, spontaneous, activity and count rate 23 questions
43. Nuclear reactors and nuclear waste 25 questions
44. Uranium enrichment: how much uranium-235 is in the fuel 22 questions
45. Energy from the complete fission of uranium-235 26 questions
46. Further half-life and decay problems 24 questions
47. Nuclear fission and the chain reaction 23 questions