Induced fission, chain reactions, and criticality

What decay constant and half-life do counting-rate data support once background is subtracted and the counting statistics are propagated? Useful evidence includes timed gross and background count totals, a weighted log-linear fit with uncertainties propagated from both counts rather than from the net count alone, residuals, and a stated interval on the half-life.

This GioPhysics course map is an adaptable learning sequence, not academic credit, accreditation, or a universal university syllabus. Third-semester content is the least standardised of the introductory sequence: departments place oscillations, waves, optics, and thermal physics differently, and the modern-physics units here are a bounded survey rather than a complete course in relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic, nuclear, or particle physics. Follow your institution's published scope, notation, laboratory programme, and assessment rules. A result should be checked against units, signs, limiting cases, and the conditions under which its model was derived.