The half life of a radioactive substance is $5$ years. After $x$ years a given sample of the radioactive substance gest reduced to $6.25 \%$ of its initial value of $x$ is ...............
$20$
$19$
$21$
$22$
The half life of a radioactive nucleus is $50$ days. The time interval $\left( t _2-t_1\right)$ between the time $t _2$ when $\frac{2}{3}$ ot it has decayed and the time $t_1$, when $\frac{1}{3}$ of it had decayed is ......days
The half-life period of a radio-active element $X$ is same as the mean life time of another radio-active element $Y$ Initially they have the same number of atoms. Then
Two radioactive elements $R$ and $S$ disintegrate as
$R \rightarrow P + \alpha; \lambda_R = 4.5 × 10^{-3} \,\, years^{-1}$
$S \rightarrow P + \beta; \lambda_S = 3 × 10^{-3} \,\, years^{-1}$
Starting with number of atoms of $R$ and $S$ in the ratio of $2 : 1,$ this ratio after the lapse of three half lives of $R$ will be :
The $S.I.$ unit of radioactivity is
Some nuclei of a radioactive material are undergoing radioactive decay. The time gap between the instances when a quarter of the nuclei have decayed and when half of the nuclei have decayed is given as:
(where $\lambda$ is the decay constant)