Nuclear, Particle & Radiation Lab for GCSE and A Level Physics
Investigate cloud-chamber tracks, build atoms, measure radioactive decay and radiation, and explore nuclear fission, fusion and particle conservation in one connected laboratory.
Learning guide and suggested activities
What this tool shows
Charged-particle tracks in a cloud chamber
Atomic structure, isotopes, evaluated stability and nuclear transformations
Random decay, half-life and ideal decay chains
Background-corrected count rates, shielding and distance
Fission, neutron generations and control rods
Fusion reactions, mass–energy accounting and plasma trends
Course-specific particle conservation and an experiment notebook
OCR A relevance
GCSE: atomic structure, radioactivity, half-life, fission and fusion
A level: nuclear structure, radioactive decay, binding energy and particle conservation
AQA relevance
GCSE: atomic structure, nuclear radiation, half-life, fission and fusion
A level: particles and radiation, radioactive decay, nuclear energy and mass–energy equivalence
Try these tasks
Identify a cloud-chamber track and investigate that radiation on the detector bench.
Build carbon-14 and transfer it into a decay experiment.
Compare repeated finite-population decay runs with the expected curve.
Measure background and collect count rates at different absorber thicknesses or distances.
Account for neutrons across generations and investigate control-rod insertion.
Compare fusion channels and account for their released energy.