Friday, September 30, 2011

Describe nuclear energy and its practical application as an alternative energy source and its potential problems

Changes can occur in the structure of the nuclei of atoms. These changes are called nuclear reactions. Energy created in a nuclear reaction is called nuclear energy.
So nuclear energy is energy released by reactions within atomic nuclei, as in nuclear fission or fusion. An alternative energy source can be renewable energy. It is energy which is generated from natural sources (sun, wind, rain, tides) and can be generated again and again as and when required. It is good because to generated anything it can be used such as the wind to help generate energy etc. The potential problems is that what happens when there is no wind and sunlight? Then you will have no energy to generate things.

Difference Between Fission and Fusion

Nuclear fission is the splitting of a nucleus into smaller, more stable fragments accompanied by a large release of energy. Nuclear fusion is the process of binding atomic nuclei into a single layer and more stable nucleus. Nuclear fusion reactions are capable of releasing very large amounts of energy.

Difference between alpha, beta, and gama radiation

Alpha is made up of alpha particles. Each alpha particle contains two protons and two neutrons and it has a +2 charge. Alpha deflected toward is a negative charged plate. Beta is  deflected toward the a positive charged plate. It is made up of beta particles that consist fast moving electrons. Gamma radiation is the thrid common radiation. It is also called gamma rays. Gamma rays are high-energy radiation that possess no mass. Since they possess no electrical charge, they are not deflected by electric or magnetic fields.



Friday, September 23, 2011

The Recycling Factory

Dear Mr. Smith
You must separate the materials in order for you to dump the recycled. First, you get a powerful magnet to pick up the steel can. Then you dump all of the materials to the other large tank of water. The density of the water was is 1.0g/cm cubed. When you drop the materials, the milk jugs will float since the densities of the milk jugs  are under 1.0g/cm cubed. The milk jug's density is 0.95g/cm cubed. After that, you pour the suger water to the water making the density of 1.5g/cm cubed. The soda bottles density is 1.4 g/cm cubed. So that will make the soda bottles float on the sugar water. Since the aluminum soda can's density is 2.7g/cm cubed, it will sink down in the water because the concentrated sugar water's density is 1.5g/cm cubed. It will sink because the density of the aluminum soda cans's density is greater than the concentrated sugar water. So the nets willl pick up the aluminum soda cans. This experiment will work to solve the solution of separating the recycling materials.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Why Chemistry Is The Most Important Science?

Chemistry is important because the science that deals with the composition and properties of substances and various elementary forms of matter. It tells you pretty much anything like chemical reactions, matter, chemicals, etc. Without chemistry there will be no such thing as food, sunlight , and yourself because everything relates to chemistry. Chemistry should be called chemistry because since everything relates to chemistry just might as well called chemistry, everything. Chemistry is so important in today's science.