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2 years ago

If you had started with a larger mass, how would the half-life change?

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iogann1982 [59]2 years ago

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Answer:

There is no change, unless your mass is somehow at the quantum level, at which the concept of half-life breaks down.

Half life is a property of the specific radioactive isotope...NOT of the initial sample's mass.

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By what factor must the amplitude of a sound wave be decreased in order to decrease the intensity by a factor of 3?

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Answer:

Amplitude is decreased by a factor of $\sqrt3$ if intensity is decreased by a factor of 3.

Explanation:

Intensity of a sound wave is directly proportional to the square of its amplitude.

Therefore, if intensity is $I$ and amplitude is $A$ , then

$I=kA^2$ , where, $k$ is constant of proportionality.

Now, if intensity of sound wave is decreased by a factor of 3. So,

New intensity is, $I_{new}=\frac{I}{3}$

$I_{new}=kA_{new}^2\\\frac{I}{3}=kA_{new}^2$

Plug in $kA^2$ for $I$ . This gives,

$\frac{kA^2}{3}=kA_{new}^2\\A_{new}^2=\frac{A^2}{3}\\A_{new}=\sqrt{\frac{A^2}{3}}=\frac{A}{\sqrt{3}}$

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3 years ago

Name three types of energy that exist in a large piece of charcoal on a grill in the sunlight. Explain why the charcoal has each

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Explanation:

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The glow which the coal gives off fall under the visible spectrum of light.

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2 years ago

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V = IR , where V is the voltage, I is the current and R is the resistor.

Thus; R = V/i

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= 60 Ω

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