Radioactivity

This study guide is intended to help you complete notes and revision for the radioactivity section of GCSE.

Use the Internet to visit the BBC Education site and make sure you have reached the Standard Grade BITESIZE revision page for radioactivity. Work through the revision portion first, and then do the self-test. You should know ALL the material here. As you are working through the material, try and complete the following tasks:

1. Click here to complete the following table. Hint: You need to know the difference between Mass Number and Atomic Number !

Click here to visit The Periodic Table website

2. Click here to complete the following table.

3. Copy this table into your notes. Complete the table as you work through the revision notes.
The best way to summarize what the radiations consist of and the properties they have is to produce a table set out like this……

5. You now need to make brief notes and diagrams showing :

a. how the radiations are affected by magnetic fields and by electric fields
b. experiments to show and measure the absorption of each radiation
c. the definition and use of half-life.