Home
Class 12
PHYSICS
What is natural radioactivity? How does ...

What is natural radioactivity? How does it vary with external parameters like temperature, pressure etc?

Promotional Banner

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

How does specific heat vary with temperature.

How does bond length vary with bond order?

What is primary productivity? Why does it vary in different types of ecosystems?

Radioactive disintegration is a first order reaction and its rate depends only upon the nature of nucleus and does not depend upon external factors like temperature and pressure. The rate of radioactive disintegration (Activity) is represented as -(dN)/(dt)=lambdaN Where lambda= decay constant, N= number of nuclei at time t, N_(0) =intial no. of nuclei. The above equation after integration can be represented as lambda=(2.303)/(t)log((N_(0))/(N)) Calculate the half-life period of a radioactive element which remains only 1//16 of its original amount in 4740 years: a) 1185 years b) 2370 years c) 52.5 years d) none of these