Thursday, March 11, 2010

Lecture #29, Wednesday, March 10th

Today I continued with the last part of the alternate energy unit, which consists of topics from nuclear chemistry. I began lecture by stating that chemistry is an experimental science where measurements are made. Chemists observe reactions in the lab and then put together theories and equations based on these observations. I listed various observations on the stability of various isotopes and also showed an example of alpha and beta emissions and ended on the topic of half-life.

On Friday I will finish the nuclear chemistry section and discuss the evaluation comments.

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