Chapter 11: Q51E (page 520)
The initial decay rate of a sample of a certain radioactive isotope is . After half an hour, the decay rate is. Determine the half-life of the isotope.
Short Answer
The half-life of the isotope is 18.3 minutes.
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Chapter 11: Q51E (page 520)
The initial decay rate of a sample of a certain radioactive isotope is . After half an hour, the decay rate is. Determine the half-life of the isotope.
The half-life of the isotope is 18.3 minutes.
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The half-life is not the average lifetimeof a radioactive nucleus. We find the average lifetime by multiplyingby the probability per unit timethat the nucleus will 鈥渓ive鈥 that long, then integrating over all time.
(a) Show thatshould be given by
(b) Show that.
To remove one electron from helium requires . and removing its second takes . The ionization energy of hydrogen is . When applied to helium -4 by what percentage is equation (11-5) in error due to its ignoring of electronic binding energies?
What is the recoil speed of the daughter nucleus when decays.
Calculate the binding energy per nucleon of technetium - .
The first two terms in the semi empirical binding energy formula deal solely with the internucleon attraction.
(a) Calculate the ratio of the second term to first term for . What does it say about the surface nucleons?
(b) Repeat part (a), but for .
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