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Do you need a quick tutorial on radiation and radioactivity? Understanding Radiation and Radioactivity: A Physics 101 Tutorial clearly explains the concepts underlying radioactivity and radiation. Written by a professor with a PhD in astrophysics and over 30 years experience teaching physics and astronomy, this tutorial will be useful for anyone who needs to know more about radiation. This tutorial is written for students from middle school through college who need help understanding the basic concepts of radiation, but it will also be useful for science teachers, other teachers, or home schoolers who need a quick refresher on the concepts of radiation. Anyone who wants to intelligently understand the risks posed by radiation and radioactivity will find this tutorial useful. This tutorial starts with an overview of the three major types of radiation: alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. A brief summary of how physicists measure radiation doses and the health effects of different radiation doses follows. An explanation of the concept of half life will help the reader understand how long radioactive isotopes last in the environment and how radioactive dating works. The tutorial ends wit

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Author

Paul A. Heckert

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction