A Brief Introduction to Alpha, Beta and Gamma Radiation 

He speaks so clearly and calmly that a person can actually learn. Incredible.

Finally someone who actually explains something I want to know.

Watches Chernobyl once... Becomes Nuclear Physicist through RU-vid

Interesting stuff man, the kinda stuff i never took notice of in school or simply couldn't understand. It's different now though, aged 49 i've become obsessed with teaching myself how atoms work mostly because of my interest in everything nuclear: power stations, bombs, MRI scanners, chemistry, astrology, electronics etc..etc. For something we cannot see with the naked eye being so fundamental in our lives just blows my mind, as does human ingenuity. I've been reverse engineering a lot of videos this evening, going back and forth through diiferent subject material and want to thank you for shedding some light on how these atoms behave, in a quick well presented manner. I was wanting to know more about radiation: beta, gamma, alpha and had understood the structure of atoms but not the different characteristcs of decay. I will now watch how MRI scanners work, how paired/un-paired electrons create magnetic forces and how plutonium re-procossing works...Thumbs up.

Doing research that lead to me needing to know this material and subject matter surrounding it. Initially was not excited but giving my self a crash course with your videos has been helpful, thank you.

Ive been fascinated by nuclear physics for quite some time now. As you can imagine, I have watched many videos on the topic. I thought i knew all there was to know about atomic decay, until I watched this video. Bloody brilliant!

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Not ONLY helpful its is the most understandable sir..thank you

Great video Mr. Davis! Didn't quite understand this when my teacher explained it. Your words were indeed much more understandable. Thanks!

This video is very helpful to understand clearly the radiations

Thanks for your very good explanation.

So simple and clear for students to understand.

Elegant explanation.

Great, short, and helpful.

Great video. Have an exam tomorrow and this helped me understand radiation much better.

Very good video that clarifies a lot for me. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Professor Davis, I'm not sure if you ever read this comments, but on the off-chance that you do; I'd like to thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.

Wow, what a excellent explanation, thank you Sir

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Best helpful explaining of nucleus radioactivity ever made on RU-vid ♥️

Amazing knowledge Actually I always think its a difficult topic but with this video I understand it and it looks an easy topic.

"But enough about sub-atomic particles...." Either a comedy album or a synth-rock song.

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For convenience, we call electrons and photons and gamma rays... massless. I find that hard to digest since nothing is massless. They then say, "Well, they are so small that we just call them massless". That same argument can be made for individual atoms themselves compared to a penny or an ice cube. It really boggles when they talk about up quarks and down quarks, muons and bosons. I think they should change the atom model we are all shown in school to be more complex with proper labeling. Same with the periodic table that each element should have several isotopes that they can be. Hydrogen has at least 3.

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ok, so gamma ray sto be emitted need alpha particle to be released too? they cant just be formed alone? and he opposite, when we are talking about alpha radiation, does it in that case release gamma rays too?

Isn't the neutron itself radioactive? I'm talking about the neutron that is released during the decay and starts the chain reaction.

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Dear Professor Devis Your presentation is excellent. I have a clarification question; In case of gemma radiation which has no charge and no mass, then what it's nature? If it is any particle called photon or wave then it should have some effective mass? Kindly clarify. Regards

I don’t get what happens with electrons in electron cloud right after alpha decay? Do they stay in their orbits or also fly away?

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons. Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons. Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.

Well how does a person get Gama Ray's of light and if it can kill tiny particles like that what would be smaller than a virus ?

great explanation! my question is that how does the radiation occur at the first place? why atoms should give up their particles or energy? in other words what is initiate the radiation?

So an electron and a photon are the same when it comes to a gamma ray being formed?

how does radiation differ from particle, why name it differently?

so if alpha radiation happens then all of the radiations you mention most happen eminently or does it take time? or is it possible to avoid the rest of the radiations being sent out when alpha radiation has happened?

What is beyond Gamma Rays? There has to be higher frequencies.

I wich my physics professor could explain things this easily...

May I call the helium atom as an alpha particle or when uranium emits helium plus very energy the combination is called as alpha particle

when that neutron turns into a proton, how the the negative beta charge pass through the electron cloud?

Why beta particle has charge minus one why not plus one even it may be electron or positron

How can there be a electron in the nucleus of atom I meant beta particle where did it come from ?

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Hello; As you said the alpha consists of two protons and two neutrons. it also consists of two electrons. So alpha must be neutral. Why alpha is positive? Thanks

I think Photons should be +1-1, would make people understand it better. And a minute detail.

In Beta radiation, if an electron is released and a neutron becomes a proton, doesn't this make the atom positively charged? I don't understand this as the protons and electrons should be equal.

It can just convert itself from a neutron into a proton? And then you have quantum tunneling. Some kind of glitch in the "laws"... We are NOT simulated, right?

If alpha radiation is the release of two protons and two neutrons, what happens to the electrons in the thorium atom? The thorium atom is supposed to have two more electrons then.

Beta particles are _vely charged particles and how does they are emitted inside nucleus?

It would be better if the white text in the video did not have any bevel text effects. Currently the text is illegible.

It would help me learn better if you had a sick guitar solo at the beginning of the video

What is beyond Gamma radiation?

The emission of elementary particles ? An alpha particle is not elementary.

is it the same proces with u-235

This guy's a fucking badass! free lecture!

1 second into the video and the ad comes in

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This is great, but something i don't understand is WHY thorium cares.

9:09

Pym particles

I think of the incredible hulk -- Been watching that show again

I still dont understand beta fully but at least i got a better idea of it

With math I calculated electrons are 0.000749 so I was 0.0002 off

Anyone else over here after watching Chernobyl?

Dose this have anything to do with 5g what kind of radiation is coming out of these 5g towers anyone know?

How can a neutron have no mass if its a particle and not a waveform😂🎉🎉🎉

Can I turn into a big green boi

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We were taught this in physics,😂

Where's the Hulk. He ain't like in the first minute. Boring.

Too many saliva sounds. Gross

Dude, learn the names of the elements. at 7:12 you say it's called "protacinum" No, just no. It's called Protactinium. Pro-tac-tini-um. Your credibility just dropped to the floor.