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Goshia [24]
3 years ago
7

Rutherford once assumed that when the earth was first formed, it contained equal amounts of U-235 and U-238. From this, he was a

ble to determine the age of the earth. Find the Rutherford age of the earth.
Physics
1 answer:
Sindrei [870]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

  • the Rutherford age of the Earth is 5.942 x 10^9 years

Explanation:

As the radioactive decay is an exponential decay, lets first remember how to solve an exponential decay problem.

In an exponential decay the quantity of substance N at time t is given by:

N(t) = N_0 e^{-\frac{t}{\tau}}

where N_0 is the initial quantity of substance and \tau is the mean lifetime of the substance.

For our problem we start with the same quantity of U-235 and U 238. Lets call this quantity as N_0.

The quantity of U-235 after a time t will be:

^{U-235}N(t) = N_0 e^{-\frac{t}{\tau_{235}}}

and for U-238

^{U-238}N(t) = N_0 e^{-\frac{t}{\tau_{238}}}

Lets call the ratio between this two r. r will be:

r(t) = \frac{^{U-235}N(t)}{^{U-238}N(t)} = \frac{ N_0 e^{ -\frac{t}{ \tau_{235} } } }{ N_0 e^{ -\frac{t}{ \tau_{238} } } }

r(t) = \frac{  e^{ -\frac{t}{ \tau_{235} } } }{ e^{ -\frac{t}{ \tau_{238} } } }

r(t) =  e^{ -\frac{t}{ \tau_{235} }   + \frac{t}{ \tau_{238} }  }

ln ( r(t) ) =   \frac{t}{ \tau_{238} }  - \frac{t}{ \tau_{235} }

ln ( r(t) ) =   t   ( \frac{1}{ \tau_{238} } }  -\frac{1}{ \tau_{235} }  )

\frac{ln ( r(t) )}{ ( \frac{1}{ \tau_{238} }   -\frac{1}{ \tau_{235} }  }  =   t

Now, in the present time the abundance of U-235 is 0.720% and the abundance of U-238 is 99.274%. This gives us a ratio of:

r(t_{present}) =\frac{0.720 \ \%}{99.274 \ \%} = 7.2526 \ 10^{-3}

the mean lifetime of U-235 is

\tau_{235} = 1.016 \ 10^9 years

and the mean lifetime of U-238 is

\tau_{238} = 6.445 \ 10^9 years

so

\frac{1}{ \tau_{238} } }  -\frac{1}{ \tau_{235} } =  \frac{1}{ 6.445 \ 10^9 years } }  -\frac{1}{ 1.016 \ 10^9 years }  = -8.2909 \ 10^{-10} \frac{1}{year}

Taking all this in consideration, we get:

t_{present}=\frac{ln ( r(t_{present}) )}{ ( \frac{1}{ \tau_{238} }  -\frac{1}{ \tau_{235} }  )}

t_{present}=\frac{ln ( 7.2526 \ 10^{-3} )}{-8.2909 \ 10^{-10} \frac{1}{year}}

t_{present}=\frac{ 4.926  }{-8.2909 \ 10^{-10} \frac{1}{year}}

t_{present}= 5.942 \ 10^9 years

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