Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Applications: Growth and Decay · medium
A radioactive isotope has a decay constant k=0.05 per year. Find its half-life.
- 13.86 yr
- 20.00 yr
- 6.93 yr
- 27.72 yr
Answer
A. 13.86 yr
Solution
t1/2= 2/k=0.6931/0.05 13.86 years.
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