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1. Alpha!
Are you stuck in your bag?
Hey, there, alpha!
You feel life is a drag?
There's no way out,
With insufficient KE
To surmount the PE barrier!
2. You can't
Count on help from kT
Not with only
Point-oh-two-five eV.
So, you're stuck there
Stuck in just nine fermi
There's no way out classically!
Chorus
It's time to learn about alpha decay (arm gestures: a D K)
You gotta learn about alpha decay (arm gestures: a D K)
Doing everything that a boson can do
To escape the nuclear glue.
It's fun to learn about alpha decay (arm
gestures: a D K)
Let's spread the word about alpha decay (arm gestures: a D K)
Doing everything that a boson can do
To escape the nuclear glue.
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3. Alpha!
So you want to be free,
Well then, alpha,
Just you listen to me
There's a way there
To escape from your well
But you've got to do some tunneling.
4. The clue to
Your radioactivity:
Your wavefunction
Falls exponentially!
You can count on
Some probability
To penetrate your barrier!
It's fun to learn about
Alpha decay
You gotta learn about
Alpha decay
Alpha, alpha there's a way to get free
Alpha, alpha, if you'll listen to me
Alpha decay
You can do it with
Alpha decay
Alphas, alphas you can escape from your wells
Alphas, alphas, do it all by yourselves
Alpha decay
Alpha decay! (fading out)
Alphas, alphas you can escape from your wells (barely audible
at this point because of fadeout)
Alphas, alphas, do it all by yourselves
Alpha decay
Alpha decay! (fading out)
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