A heavy nucleus $Q$ of half-life $20$ minutes undergoes alpha-decay with probability of $60 \%$ and beta-decay with probability of $40 \%$. Initially, the number of Q nuclei is $1000$ . The number of alphadecays of $Q$ in the first one hour is

Half-life is measured by

The activity of a radioactive material is $6.4 \times 10^{-4}$ curie. Its half life is $5\; days$. The activity will become $5 \times 10^{-6}$ curie after $.......day$

A radioactive sample $\mathrm{S} 1$ having an activity $5 \mu \mathrm{Ci}$ has twice the number of nuclei as another sample $\mathrm{S} 2$ which has an activity of $10 \mu \mathrm{Ci}$. The half lives of $\mathrm{S} 1$ and $\mathrm{S} 2$ can be

At $t = 0$, number of active nuclei in a sample is $N_0$. How much no. of nuclei will decay in time between its first mean life and second half life?

In a radioactive decay process, the activity is defined as $A=-\frac{\mathrm{d} N}{\mathrm{~d} t}$, where $N(t)$ is the number of radioactive nuclei at time $t$. Two radioactive sources, $S_1$ and $S_2$ have same activity at time $t=0$. At a later time, the activities of $S_1$ and $S_2$ are $A_1$ and $A_2$, respectively. When $S_1$ and $S_2$ have just completed their $3^{\text {rd }}$ and $7^{\text {th }}$ half-lives, respectively, the ratio $A_1 / A_2$ is. . . . . . .