Friday, November 7, 2008

Half-life and Mean life;

Half life:

The time elapased before half the active nuclei decay is called half-life and is denoted by t1/2.

t1/2. = 0.693/ λ

where
λ = decay constant.

Average life of the nuclei of a material

tav. = t1/2/0.693

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