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Units of Radioactivity

 

Description

Examples

Description

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Radioactivity has the dimension length squared mass per time. The SI composite unit of radioactivity is the kilogram meter squared per second.

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Maple knows the units of radioactivity listed in the following table.

Name

Symbols

Context

Alternate Spellings

Prefixes

 

 

 

 

 

becquerel

Bq

SI *

becquerels

SI

curie

Ci

radiation *

curies

SI

rutherford

Rd

radiation *

rutherfords

SI

  

An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively.  Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, becquerel[SI] or Ci[radiation]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, becquerel or Ci.

  

 

  

The units of radioactivity are defined as follows.

  

A becquerel is defined as a radionuclide decay per second.

  

A curie is defined as 3.7×1010 radionuclide decays per second.

  

A rutherford is defined as 1.×106 radionuclide decays per second.

Examples

convertbecquerel,dimensions,base=true

1time

(1)

convert1,units,Ci,Bq

37000000000

(2)

convert1,units,Rd,Bq

1000000

(3)

See Also

convert/dimensions

convert/units

Units

Units/Index

Units/length

Units/mass

Units/time