3rd Edition

ISBN: 9780135626566

Author: Hewitt

Publisher: INTER PEAR

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The concept of Half Life has numerous practical applications some of them includes figuring out the effective drug dosage to finding out when a radioactive becomes safe to use. If you look for a career in Nuclear Physics you will need this concept.

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