A freshly prepared sample of iodine-131 contains undecayed nuclei

PHYSICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Physics · Nuclei · Nuclei

Problem

A freshly prepared sample of iodine-131 contains 6.0×10206.0 \times 10^{20} undecayed nuclei. The half-life of iodine-131 is 8.0 days. (i) Calculate the decay constant of iodine-131. (ii) Determine the number of iodine-131 nuclei that will remain undecayed after 24 days. (iii) Express the result of part (ii) as a percentage of the initial number of nuclei.

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