A block with a mass of 1kg moving at a velocity of 3m/s collides and sticks to a block of mass of 4kg initially at rest. What is
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Answer:
72,300 years.
Explanation:
- Initial mass of this sample: 504 grams;
- Current mass of this sample: 63 grams.
What's the ratio between the current and the initial mass of this sample? In other words, what fraction of the initial sample hasn't yet decayed?
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The value of this fraction starts at 1 decreases to 1/2 of its initial value after every half-life. How many times shall 1/2 be multiplied to 1 before reaching 1/8? . It takes three half-lives or
years to reach that value.
In certain questions the denominator of the fraction is large. It might not even be an integer power of 2. The base-x logarithm function on calculators could help. Evaluate
to find the number of half-lives required. In case the base-x logarithm function isn't available, but the natural logarithm function
is, apply the following expression (derived from the base-changing formula) to get the same result:
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