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COMEDK · Physics · 29. Nuclear Physics

A radioactive sample has a half-life of \(10 \mathrm{~min}\). If 64 nuclei are contained in the sample the number of nuclei that would decay after, \(50 \mathrm{~min}\) is

  1. A 2
  2. B 5
  3. C 59
  4. D 62
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(D) 62

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Given, \(t_{1 / 2}=10 \mathrm{~min}, N_{0}=64, t=50 \mathrm{~min}\) The number of half-lives in \(50 \mathrm{~min}\), \[ n=\frac{t}{t_{1 / 2}}=\frac{50}{10}=5 \] In 5 half-lives, number of nuclei left undecayed,…