This video documents a simple but surprisingly effective detector for alpha radiation. (I'm indebted to Tim Raney of Richmond, Virginia for the hard work of...
Rutherford's Nuclear Atom Experiment In 1910, Rutherford and his coworkers were studying the angles at which alpha particles were scattered as they passed through a...
The Alpha Particle consists of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a perfectly balanced system. For our exploration of psychological balancing, we have...
Americium, in a cloud chamber, emits Alpha Particles (2 protons and 2 neutrons) due to radioactive decay. These Alpha Particles disrupt the super-saturated alchohol vapor,...