Radioactivity: a collaboratively authored cai tutorial

Abstract

1 he tutorial has been created over a four year period involving contribution-4 from academics and instructional designers in Australia and New Zealand, It has been well accepted by students. 1. Content. INTRODUCTION Radiation sources, em and paniculate radiation, bio-effects. ISÖTOPKS AND DECAY Subatomic particles, isotopes, atomic and mass no.s. modes of decay. I1C de cay to H, energy spectra, softhard radiation, half life. uses, l1 N ITS Ht), Ci. eV, Gy, Sv. MEASUREMENT Geiger-Muller, scintillation, autoradiography. Cerenkov, pliosphorimaging, differential counting, background, efficiency, precision, quenching. SAFKTY Ionising radiation on tissue, carcinogenesis and genetic effects, dosag..