Two parallel beams of positrons moving in the same direction will
repel each other
will not interact with each other
attract each other
be deflected normal to the plane containing the two beams
Carbon dating is best suited for determining the age of fossils if their age in years is of the order of
108
104
104
106
Assertion: 90Sr from the radioactive fall out from a nuclear bomb ends up in the bones of human beings through the milk consumed by them. It causes impairment of the production of red blood cells.
Reason: The energies β-particles emitted in the decay of 90Sr damage the bone marrow.
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Assertion: Energy is released in nuclear fission.
Reason: Total binding energy of the fission fragments is larger than the total binding energy of the parent nucleus.
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When a heavy nucleus splits into two medium-sized ones, each of the new nuclei will have more binding energy per nucleon than the original nucleus. The extra energy will be given off.
e.g. if the uranium nucleus is broken into two small nuclei, the binding energy difference per nucleon is about 0.8 MeV. The total energy given off is therefore
× 235 nucleon = 188 MeV
Assertion: Heavy water preferred ever ordinary water as a moderator in reactors.
Reason: Heavy water, used for slowing down the neutrons, has lesser absorption probability
of neutrons than ordinary water.
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A proton is about 1840 times heavier than an electron. When it is accelerated by a potential difference of 1 kV, its kinetic energy will be
1840 keV
1/1840 keV
1 keV
920 keV
A radioactive substance decays to 1/16th of its initial activity in 40 days. The half-life of the radioactive substance expressed in days is
2.5
5
10
20
A neutron makes a head-on elastic collision with a stationary deuteron. The fractional energy loss of the neutron in the collision is
16/81
8/9
8/27
2/3
Nuclear fusion is possible
only between light nuclei
only between heavy nuclei
between both light and heavy nuclei
only between nuclei which are stable against β-decay