Pre Lab Questions - Experiment 10

1. Explain how you would determine that 137Cs has a spin and parity of 7/2+ .

2. Show that the relation between half-life and lifetime given in your handout is true.  (NOTE:  Atomic and molecular physicists typically talk in terms of excited state lifetimes, t, whereas nuclear physicists prefer the term half-life, t1/2 .)
3. Compare and contrast ionization potentials of atoms with binding energy for nucleons as a function of nucleon number.




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