Isotopes Teacher Resources

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about how radioactive particles decay. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

A unit is the frequently arbitrary designation we have given to something to convey a definite magnitude of a physical quantity and every quantity can be expressed in terms of the seven base units that are contained in the international...

Dihydrogen monoxide (better known as water) is the key to nearly everything. It falls from the sky, makes up 60% of our bodies, and just about every chemical process related to life takes place with it or in it. Without it, none of the...

In this episode, we talk about Silicon Valley's namesake and how network solids are at the heart of it all. Hank also discusses Solid-State Semiconductors, N-Type and P-Type Semiconductors, Diodes, Transistors, Computer Chips, and Binary...

Hank takes us on a tour of the earliest pioneers in the field of atomic theory. From Leucippus to Heisenberg to you - yes, YOU - the story of Atomic Chemistry is all wibbly-wobbly... and amazing. [9:40]

Continuing our look at Nuclear Chemistry, Hank takes this episode to talk about Fusion and Fission. What they mean, how they work, their positives, negatives, and dangers. Plus, E=mc2, Mass Defect, and Applications of Fission and Fusion...

Chemistry can tell us how three tiny particles - the proton, neutron and electron - come together in trillions of combinations to form everything. In this inaugural episode of Crash Course Chemistry, we start out with one of the biggest...

Radiometric dating, fission-track dating, and amino-acid dating are explained in this succinct site.

Definition of half-life and graphing the decay of phosphorus-32. Calculating how much phosphorus-32 remains after 57.2 days. [6:42]

An interactive turtorial on beta decay. Very readable and has a little extra for the advanced student.

An interactive tutorial on positrons. Very readible and has a little extra for the advanced student.

Definition of half-life and graphing the decay of phosphorus-32. Calculating how much phosphorus-32 remains after 57.2 days. [6:46]