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Author: Larry Goldstein / David Lay

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Chapter 5.1, Problem 56E

Time to Finish Consider the exponential decay function y = P 0 e − λ t , with time constant T . We define the time to finish to be the time it takes for the function to decay to about 1 % of its initial value P 0 . Show that the time to finish is about four times the time constant T .

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Time to Finish Consider the exponential decay function y = P 0 e − λ t , with time constant T . We define the time to finish to be the time it takes for the function to decay to about 1 % of its initial value P 0 . Show that the time to finish is about four times the time constant T .

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