Field
Health Physics
Health Physics / Radiation Protection: the applied science of understanding, measuring, and controlling ionizing-radiation exposure.
Subject
Atomic and Nuclear Foundations
5 lessons · 2 articles
Lessons
- 01Nuclear Structure
Atomic Structure for Health Physics
Connect atomic constituents, electron structure, and ionization to the physical basis of radiation interactions.
- 02Nuclear Structure
Nuclides, Isotopes, and Nuclear Notation
Read and construct nuclide notation while distinguishing isotopes, isobars, isotones, ions, and metastable states.
- 03Nuclear Structure
Nuclear Structure and Stability
Explain nuclear stability through competing forces, neutron-to-proton balance, shells, and energetically allowed transformations.
- 04Nuclear Structure
Mass Defect and Binding Energy
Calculate nuclear mass defect and binding energy and interpret binding energy per nucleon.
- 05Nuclear Structure
Mass–Energy Equivalence in Nuclear Processes
Apply relativistic energy conservation to nuclear transformations, emitted radiation, recoil, and threshold behavior.
Articles
- 01Nuclear Structure
From Atoms to Radionuclides: What Exactly Is Radioactive?
A scale-aware explanation of atoms, nuclides, ions, and nuclear stability for beginning health-physics readers.
- 02Nuclear Structure
Where Nuclear Energy Comes From: Binding, Mass, and Radiation
A conservation-based account of mass defect, binding energy, nuclear stability, and the energy carried by radiation.