Physics A-Level
Relationship between half-life and decay constant
What Relationship between half-life and decay constant means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Half-life is related to the decay constant by T½ = ln2/λ.
Topics that use Relationship between half-life and decay constant
- 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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