Ah, beta-ta? My daughter showed me this just last week, struggling with her physics copy. You see, alpha decay, the big father nucleus loses 4 in mass, 2 in atomic number. Beta decay, confusing one, neutron becomes proton, so atomic number goes up by 1, mass stays same.
It is like my pickle accounts, bhala – what you start with must equal what you end with, even if things change form. But, they make it sound so simple in book. Real learning? It came when we sat on balcony with her notes, me with my ledger, figuring it out together with the crows for company.
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