Products of Radioisotopes (1 Viewer)

[dolbinau]

I don' t think they've ever done it in a past HSC exam, but in the successOne questions at the front - in the medical physics section - there is a question where you are expected to name the product of an isotope decaying.

How can we do this without chemistry knowledge?

How am I supposed to know what iodine turns into if it loses an electron or whatever?

Do we even need to know this?

 

[Harkaraj]

I dont think they could ask that, they'd just ask uses of radiopharmaceuticals in PET or radioactive compounds which accumulate in specific organs and name iodine or technetium.

 

[benji6667]

i dont think they can ask you to write radioactive decay equations, however if your a chem student you should know them anyway

 

[obimoshman1234]

lol its not that hard i mean look at periodic table cause that will be given

 

[helper]

They expect you to know about PET scans and gased on that a product of radioactive decay (positron). They don't expect you to do nuclear equations to determine radioactive products.