At an archeological site, a sample from timbers containing 500 g of carbon provides 2690 decays/min. What is the age of the sample?

(a) Suppose a piece of very pure germanium is to be used as a light detector by observing, through the absorption of photons, the increase in conductivity resulting from generation of electron–hole pairs. If each pair requires 0.67 eV of energy, what is the maximum wavelength that can be detected? In what portion of the spectrum does it lie?

CP At a temperature of 290 K, a certain p-n junction has a saturation current IS = 0.500 mA. (a) Find the current at this temperature when the voltage is (i) 1.00 mV, (ii) -1.00 mV, (iii) 100 mV, and (iv) -100 mV.

(a) A forward-bias voltage of 15.0 mV produces a positive current of 9.25 mA through a p-n junction at 300 K. What does the positive current become if the forward-bias voltage is reduced to 10.0 mV?

A Geiger counter is used to measure the decay of a radioactive isotope produced in a nuclear reactor. Initially, when the sample is first removed from the reactor, the Geiger counter registers 15,000 decays/s. 15 h later the count is down to 5500 decays/s.b. At what time after the sample's removal from the reactor is the count 1200 decays/s?

It has become popular for some people to have yearly whole-body scans (CT scans, formerly called CAT scans) using x rays, just to see if they detect anything suspicious. A number of medical people have recently questioned the advisability of such scans, due in part to the radiation they impart. Typically, one such scan gives a dose of 12 mSv, applied to the whole body. By contrast, a chest x ray typically administers 0.20 mSv to only 5.0 kg of tissue. How many chest x rays would deliver the same total amount of energy to the body of a 75-kg person as one whole-body scan?

In a diagnostic x-ray procedure, 5.00x10^10 photons are absorbed by tissue with a mass of 0.600 kg. The x-ray wavelength is 0.0200 nm. (a) What is the total energy absorbed by the tissue? (b) What is the equivalent dose in rem?

Calculate the energy released in the fusion reaction

A proton and an antiproton annihilate, producing two photons. Find the energy, frequency, and wavelength of each photon (b) if the p and p collide head-on, each with an initial kinetic energy of 620 MeV.