MindTap Engineering, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card for Dunlap's Sustainable Energy, SI Edition, 2nd
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Chapter 5, Problem 11P
The measured decay rates of a radioactive material as a function of time are shown in the table below.
- (a) Calculate the half-life of the decay.
- (b) Show that a semilogarithmic plot of the decay rate as a function of time is linear.
- (c) Derive an analytical form of the linear relationship for part (b).
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From two inaccessible but intervisible points A and B, the angles to two triangulation stations C and D were observed as follows:
Line AB is 500 m long.
Angle CAB = 79 deg 30°
Angle DAB = 28 deg 30°
Angle DBC = 31 deg 30°
Angle DBA = 84 deg 30°
1. Find the distance BC
2. Find the distance BD
3. Find the distance CD
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