Initially there are 700 grams of a radioactive substance on hand. Suppose the half-life of the substance is 7 hours. Construct an exponential model A(t) = A0ekt for the amount remaining of the decaying substance?
1 Answer
Mar 28, 2018
We consider radioactive decay to exhibit first order kinetics. Moreover, we take the concentration of the radioactive nuclides to be their mass given.
Recall,
Let's derive the rate constant, first.
With your format, we would come up with,