PřF:C7680 Isotopic methods - laboratory - Course Information
C7680 Isotopic methods - laboratory exercise
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: graded credit. Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jiří Křivohlávek (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Stanislav Pavelka, CSc. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jiří Křivohlávek
Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 13:00–14:50 C12/113
- Prerequisites
- NOW( C7670 Isotopic methods )
Mastering basics of chemistry and physics. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10 - Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to: using basic methods of the detection and measurement of ionizing radiation; handling of sources of ionizing radiation; measuring properties of ionizing radiation; be able separate and describe properties of selected radionuclides. Be familiar with the Czech law concerning handling sources of ionizing radiation and with principles of radiation protection.
- Syllabus
- 1. Radiation safety and principles of radiation protection.
- 2. Errors in measurement of radioactivity.
- 3. Scintillation probe dead time.
- 4. Crystal scintillation probe.
- 5. Gamma spectroscopy with crystal probe.
- 6. Absorption of gamma and beta radiation.
- 7. Self-absorption of beta radiation.
- 8. Determination of the half-life of a short-lived radionuclide.
- 9. Determination of the half-life of a long-lived radionuclide.
- 10. Determination of degree of enrichment of uranium compounds.
- 11. Radioactive equilibrium.
- 12. Measurements of volume activity of radon.
- 13. Alpha spectroscopy.
- 14. Measurements of low-energy beta radiation by methods of liquid scintillation.
- Literature
- HÁLA, Jiří. Cvičení z jaderné chemie. 3. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 97 s. ISBN 8021016361. info
- Teaching methods
- Laboratory exercise
- Assessment methods
- Laboratory exercises, 100 % partipitions in exercises, exercises ends by graded credit.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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