nuclear physics

< < Lecture 33 Video Transcript Hello there! Welcome to lecture 34: fission and fusion. In this last lecture video, we’ll talk about the energy that can be harnessed by the atomic nucleus in the processes of nuclear fission and fusion. Each of the following concepts will be discussed in Read more…

< < Lecture 32 Lecture 34 > > Resources Detection of xenon-124 decay – Researchers observed what they believe to be radioactive decay of xenon-124, which has a half-life of 1.8⨉1022 years, one trillion times longer than the current age of the universe. Video Transcript Hello there! Welcome to lecture 33: Read more…