Modern Physics 3 Question 18
18. The half-life of is 8 days. Given a sample of at time , we can assert that
(a) no nucleus will decay before
(b) no nucleus will decay before
(c) all nuclei will decay before
(d) a given nucleus may decay at any time after
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Solution:
- Number of nuclei decreases exponentially
Therefore, decay process lasts upto