Celebrating Woods
University of Chicago
What book did Wu write?
Beta Decay
What is the purpose of the cadmium rods in the Pile?
Which atomic bomb did Woods contribute to?
Nagasaki
Why did Wu move to the east coast?
Pearl Harbor and Anti-Asian Sentiment
U-236 is unstable. Name one of the two elements that it divides into. What else separates out of the splitting attom?
Ba 141 or Kr 92
and 3 neutrons
With whom did Woods work on the Manhattan Project? (name the person who headed the project)
Enrico Fermi
What topic was Wu's thesis on?
Radioactive isotope of Xenon
What else, besides electron direction, does the weak nuclear force treat differently?
matter and antimatter, or time
What was the name of the project Woods worked on for the Manhattan Project?
The Chicago Pile
What method did Wu help develop to enrich uranium ores?
Gaseous diffusion
What was the reason that the Hanford Reactor, the B Reactor, slowed down? What did Woods and her team figure out was going on?
What was Woods' biggest contribution to the Manhattan Project project? (what did she make?)
Boron Trifluoride Counter
What did the Wu experiment prove?
Parity is not conserved in weak interactions
Parity is not conserved for which of the four fundamental forces?
Weak nuclear force/weak interaction/weak force