Read the PDF given on Canvas (Medical Isotopes: General Concepts) as well as the nuclear chemistry powerpoint and the relevant chapter in the textbook (chapter 5).
You should summarize your learning, ensuring to include information and examples to explain each of the following:
• Describe what an isotope is, and what is meant by radioisotopes. Give examples.
• With examples, explain the difference between alpha, beta and gamma emission, giving example equations.
• Explain half life, and give example calculations of half life.
• Explain the difference between diagnostic and therapeutic radioisotopes.
• Choose a diagnostic and a therapeutic isotope, give it’s symbol, decay type and current use.
• Explain why nuclear chemistry is important for your future career.
As per the updated syllabus, this exercise is a homework grade and due on December 11. You can submit this as an Adobe Spark presentation, a word document, a powerpoint presentation, you can write it out and scan it in, or you can even produce a video. Be creative, and learn something new in the process. You should upload your finished assignment on Canvas.
This should be an extensive piece of work- I expect more than a paragraph or two.
As always, academic honesty is expected at all times. Any work found to be not the sole work of the student, in part or in whole, with automatically receive a zero.
