Physics A-Level
Iterative numerical modelling
What Iterative numerical modelling means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Iterative numerical modelling
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A step-by-step numerical method in which the change in nuclei is calculated as ΔN = -λNΔt and the new number of nuclei is N_new = N_old + ΔN, repeated across rows in a spreadsheet.
Topics that use Iterative numerical modelling
- Radioactivity (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Absorber
- Alpha decay
- Beta-minus decay
- Beta-plus decay
- Carbon-14 and half-life
- Corrected count rate
- Decay constant
- Experimental measurement of half-life
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