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1. Daily Notes/2024/9. September/2024-09-03.md

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 # Tasks for today
 ## Big Task
- - [ ] [[2024-09-03 Homework 1]]
+ - [/] [[2024-09-03 Homework 1]]
 ## Medium Tasks
 - [ ] [[Cole Group Monitor Reccomendations]]
 - [ ] Create [[ReadMe for BeagleBone GitHub]]
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 - [ ] Organize library in Zotero
 - [ ] BeagleBone?
 - [ ] Rust Chapter 4?
-- [ ] Get in contact with reimbursement department!
-- [ ] 
-
+- [x] Get in contact with reimbursement department! ✅ 2024-09-03
 # Calendar Tasks
 -  Lunch [startTime:: 12:30]  [endTime:: 13:30]

300s School/302. NUCE 2100 - Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering/2024-09-03 Homework 1.md

@@ -37,11 +37,20 @@ $10 \text{g} \times \frac{1 \text{ mol } ^{12}\text{C}}{12 \text{g}} \times \fra
 	$3.34274 \times 10^{24} \text{ H atoms} \times \frac{0.0156 ^2H}{1 H} = 5.21468 \times 10^{22} \text{ deuterium atoms}$
 **5. Find the mass of an atom of $^{235}\text{U}$**
 	*a. in amu;*
+	[235.043928 amu](https://ciaaw.org/uranium.htm)
 	*b. in grams.*
+	$1 \text{ atom } ^{235}U \times \frac{1 \text{ mol } ^{235}U}{0.6022045 \times 10^{24} \text{ atoms}} \times \frac{235.043928 \text{ g }}{1 \text{ mol } ^{235}U} = 3.90306 \times 10^{-20} \text{ g }$
 **6. The complete combustion of 1 kg of bituminous coal releases about $3\times 10^7 \text{J}$ in heat energy. The conversion of 1 g of mass into energy is equivalent to the burning of how much coal?**
+[The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light)
+$E = mc^2$
+$E = 0.001 \text{ kg } \left(299792458 \text{ m/s }\right)^2$
+$E = 8.98755 \times 10^{13} \text{ J }$
+$\left(8.98755 \times 10^{13} \text{ J } \right) \times \frac{1 \text{ kg }}{3 \times 10^7 \text{ J }} = 2995850 \text{ kg of coal }$
 **7. Tritium ($^3\text{H}$) decays by negative beta decay with a half-life of 12.26 years. The atomic weight of $^3\text{H}$ is 3.016.**
 	*a. To what nucleus does $^3\text{H}$ decay?*
+	[Helium-3](https://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~ecs103/chart/)
 	*b. What is the mass in grams of 1 mCi of tritium?*
+	
 **8. Approximately what mass of $^{90}\text{Sr}$ (T-1/2 = 28.8 years) has the same activity as 1g of $^{60}\text{Co}$ (T-1/2 = 5.26 years)?**
 **9. Using the chart of the nuclides, complete the following reactions. If a daughter nucleus is radioactive, indicate the complete decay chain:**