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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors
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Transcribed Image Text:Half-Life practice
2 What is half-life?
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CALAFUER
% of original mass remaining
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90
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70
60
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10
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Counts per minute
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of half-lives
80
70
60
The graph below shows the breakdown of radon-222.
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20
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Create a graph that represents how a
radioactive element will decay.
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The half-life of Po-214 is 0.001 seconds. How
much of a 10-gram sample is left after 0.003
seconds?
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Time (Days)
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Gold-198 has a half life of 2.7 days. Complete the
table for an initial sample size of 200 grams.
TIME ELAPSED
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0 days
2.7 days
AMOUNT
REMAINING
200 grams
How much of a 500g sample of potassium-42 is left after
37.2 hours if the half-life of potassium-42 is 12.4 hours.
What is the half-life of Rn-222?
What fraction of the original sample will be left after 3 half-lives?_
How much of a 100 gram sample of gold-198 is left after
8.10 days if its half life is 2.7 days?
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