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Half Life

 

The Half Life in terms of Decay Constant

 

 

It may be the case that this derivation is not required by your particular syllabus. However, understanding how equations are derived from first principles will give you a deeper understanding of physics. This indirectly will probably lead to a better result.

 

 

The half life of a radioactive substance is the time taken for half the nuclei present to disintigrate.

 

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