Overview
Students should be able: Identify the radiation from radioactive substances using their characteristics Solve simple problems involving half-life of radioactive substances State some uses of radioactive substances Use the concept of nuclear fission and fusion for the development of nuclear energy programme for Nigeria.
What you'll learn
- Radioactivity - natural and artificial:
- Isotopes
- Radioactive elements
- Radioactive emission
- Half-life and decay constant.
- Nuclear reaction
- Fission
- Fusion
- Nuclear energy
- Nuclear power and atomic bomb.
- Nigeria's nuclear energy programme.