This week, consider the following terms:

• Alpha rays
• Beta rays
• Decay
• Gamma gays
• Half-life
• Isotope
• Nuclear radiation
• Nucleus
• Radioactive
• Radioactive dating
• Tunneling

Chooseat least 2 terms from the list and answer the following questions for each term:

• What familiarity and prior knowledge do you have about the term?
• What does the term mean in everyday language to everyday people? Use examples to help describe your thoughts. How do people use the word?
• What does the term mean in technical language to physicists?
• How is the term related to the course student learning outcome:Model the atomic and nuclear behavior of matter?
• What are the similarities and differences between the everyday and technical meanings and uses of the term?
• How might the similarities and differences impact your learning of physics concepts in this course?

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