Class- Tuesday,March 03/30/10

Review: what is half-life?

Students worked on problems related to half- lives

Homework: Q 1-4  from text book (page number-301)

Class- Monday,March 03/29/10

Review: fission and fusion

Students learned about: Half life related to nuclear decay

Homework: Study your class notes

Class- Tuesday,March 03/16/10

Today students learned about:

• Nuclear fusion
• Comparision between fission and fusion reactions

Homework: study your notes

Reminder:3rd 9 week exams; Wednesday -Friday(03/17/10-03/19/10)

Class- Monday,March 03/15/10

Today students learned about :

• nuclear fission
• nuclear reactor

Homework: Study your notes and complete the given handouts

Reminder : 3rd 9 week exams;Wednesday-Friday(03/17/10-03/19/10)

Class-Thursday,March 03/11/10

Students learned about Half-Life and solved problems related to half lifves.

Homework: study your notes at home.

Reminder: test on friday 03/12/10

Class- Wednesday,March 03/10/10

Today students learned:Types of nuclear decay

Homework: Complete the given handout of nuclear reactions

Reminder: Test on Friday 03/12/10

Class- Tuesday,March 03/09/10

Review: chemical reactions v/s nuclear reactions
Today students learned about the:

• Nuclear decay-alpha, beta particles and gamma ray
• balancing nuclear equations

Homework- balance the given nuclear equations(1-12) (handout)

Class- Monday,March 03/08/10

Today students worked on

• vocabulary related to nuclear reactions
• chemical reactions v/s nuclear reactions

Homework:

• complete the guided reading worksheet 
•  correct the mistakes from the test paper and justify your answers.

Class-Thursday,March 03/04/10

Review: compare and contrast between chemical reactions and nuclear reactions

Today  students learned about radioactive/nuclear decay in terms of alpha decay,beta decay and gamma decay.

Homework: study your class notes at home.

Class-Wednesday,March 03/03/10

Review: Isotopes v/s radioisotopes
Today students learned about :

• Nulear Decay in which an unstable atomic nuclei convert into stable nuclei by emitting alpha,beta perticles and/or gamma radiations.
• What are alpha particles and their properties?

Homework: Study your class notes at home.

Reminder: 3rd 9 weeks exams from March 17-19