(a) Define the term decay constant and half life of a radioactive sample. Derive the relation connecting the two.
(b) How many disintegrations per second will occur in one gram of ₉₂U²³⁸, if its half-life against alpha decay is \(1.42\times { 10 }^{ 17 }s\) ?

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(a) Using the Bohr's model, calculate the speed of the electron in a hydrogen atom in the n = 1, 2, and 3 levels
(b) Calculate orbital period in each of these levels.

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What is the minimum energy that must b given to a H-atom in ground state so that it can angular momentum of the system is conserved, what would be the angular momentum of such H photon?

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What is Bohr's quantum condition?

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The wavelength of \({ K }_{ \alpha }\) line for copper is \(1.36\mathring { A } \) . Calculate the ionisation potential of a K shell electron in copper.

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Calculate shortest wavelength of Balmer series. Given \(R=1.097\times { 10 }^{ 7 }{ m }^{ -1 }\).

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Calculate the equivalent energy of electron and proton at rest.Given that mass of electron \(=9.1\times { 10 }^{ -31 }kg\) and mass of proton \(=1.673\times { 10 }^{ -27 }kg\) .

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The half-life of a certain radioactive material is 100 days. After how much time the undecayed fraction of a material will be 6.25%?

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One milligram of thorium emits 22 \(\alpha -particles\) per minute per unit solid angle. Calculate average life of thorium. The Atomic weight of thorium is 232.

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A radioactive sample contains 2.2 mg of pure \(_{ 6 }{ { C }^{ 11 } }\) which has half-life of 1224 s. Calculate
(i) the number of atoms presents initially
(ii) the activity when \(5\mu g\) of the sample will be left?

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Assuming that four hydrogen atoms combine to form a helium atom and two positrons, each of mass 0.000549 u, calculate the energy released. Given \(m(_{ 1 }{ { H }^{ 1 }) }\)= 1.007825 u and \(m(_{ 2 }{ { He }^{ 4 }) }\) = 4.002604 u.

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There is a stream of neutrons with a kinetic energy of 0.0327 eV. If the half life of neutrons is 700 seconds, what fraction of neutrons will decay before they travel a distance of 10 m? Given mass of neutron \(=1.675\times { 10 }^{ -27 }kg.\)

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Suppose you are given a chance to repeat the alpha particle scattering experiment using a thin sheet of solid hydrogen in place of gold foil. What results do you expect?

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