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Physics · Topic 19

Radioactive decay and half-life calculations

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Fossil dating and the geological time scale: true/false

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Fossil dating and the geological time scale: true/false

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Finding half-life from initial and final mass of a decaying radioisotope

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Finding half-life from initial and final mass of a decaying radioisotope

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Finding half-life from initial and final mass of a decaying radioisotope

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Activity of a radioactive sample from decay constant and number of nuclei

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Mass remaining after a given number of half-lives

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Mass remaining after a given number of half-lives

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Mass remaining after a given number of half-lives

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Mass remaining after a given number of half-lives

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Radioactive decay: activity after a whole number of half-lives

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Activity of a radionuclide from the decay constant

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Decay constant from half-life

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Identifying the final nuclide of a decay chain

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Half-life from a ratio of activities

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Suitability and limitations of carbon-14 dating (true/false)

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Time elapsed for a radionuclide sample to decay to a given mass, from its half-life

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Sub-topic 18 2013 · National Preliminary Premium

Definition of the half-life of a radioactive substance

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Decay constant from half-life

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Radioactive decay rate is proportional to, not equal to, the number of particles present (true/false)

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Half-life of a radioactive substance from its decay constant

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Percentage of initial activity remaining after several half-lives

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Types of radioactive decay: beta, alpha and gamma, and their nuclear changes

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Activity of a radionuclide after elapsed time, via the exponential decay law

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Number of half-lives for a 192g sample to decay to 0.375g

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Half-life from decay of 56.0mg to 1.75mg in 12 hours

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Decay time from initial and final mass given a half-life, 2.3min half-life

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Half-life from a specimen's activity decreasing 64x in a given time

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