Cutnell & Johnson PHYSICS 6/e Chapter Thirty-One: Nuclear Physics & Radioactivity |
Isotopes and Radioactivity
Physics 2000 Initiative, University of Colorado at Boulder.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/PhysicsInitiative/ This lavishly illustrated and JAVA-rich (and often slow) site includes this detailed storyline describing decays, binding energy and halflife. A very nicely done JAVA applet shows examples of the various kinds of radioactive decay. |
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Natural Radioactive Series
Yevgeniy Miretskiy, SUNY Stony Brook Project Java. http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu This applet plots the population of different members of the natural radioactive decay series as time elapses. |
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An Introduction to the RadioCarbon Dating Method
from the Waikato RadioCarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand. http://www.c14dating.com/int.html A discussion of how radiocarbon dating works, and an index of related sites from a radiocarbon dating laboratory. These folk also have a K-12 school page worth viewing. |