Quiz for:
Activity and Half-life

Question 1

What is the definition of the activity of a radioactive sample?

Question 2

What does the becquerel measure?

Question 3

Which device is used to measure the activity of radioactive materials?

Question 4

What will be the remaining number of radioactive nuclei in a sample after 4 half-lives, starting from 1 million nuclei?

Question 5

What happens to the number of radioactive nuclei as more isotopes decay?

Question 6

How does the decay process occur in radioactive materials?

Question 7

If a radioactive sample has an initial activity of 800 Bq and drops to 400 Bq in 5 hours, what is the half-life of the sample?

Question 8

What is a decay curve?

Question 9

What happens to the activity of a sample as the number of decayed isotopes increases?

Question 10

How can you determine the half-life from a decay curve?

Question 11

Which unit is used to measure the activity of radioactive materials?

Question 12

What is the activity of a sample if 2000 isotopes decay each second?

Question 13

How can half-life be confirmed using another halving in activity?

Question 14

Why is the decay rate described as random?

Question 15

How is the half-life of a radioactive substance defined?

Question 16

If the initial activity of a sample is 1000 Bq and its half-life is 3 hours, what will be the activity after 6 hours?