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Name Of Experiment :
Determining the half-life radioactive point source
please i want The first question
Post lab questions: 1. If you keep repeating the experiment using the same source during close intervals of time, will get the same average count readings? Will you get closer to the ideal half-life value of the isotope? 2. If you have to determine the half-life of radioisotope, but it decays to another radioactive material (daughter) with different half-life; how could you distinguish between the half-lives?
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Answer: If we keep repeating the experiment using the same source during the intervals of time, yes we will get the same average count readings. As half-life, in radioactivity, the interval of time required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radi