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Half life from Graphs Answer these questions on paper . The answers are at the end. Do not look at the answers until you have completed all the questions.
1. What percentage of Plutonium is left after 56,000 years?
2.  Which isotope has the shortest half life C-14 or Pu-239?
3.  What is the half life of Pu-239?
4.  What is the approximate half life of C-14?
5.  How long does it take for the activity of the C-14 sample to fall to one quarter of its initial value?
6.  How long does it take for the activity of the Pu-239 sample to fall to one eighth of its initial value?
Answers 1. 20%      (1 mark for 20 and 1 mark for %) 2. Carbon 14 or C-14 (1 mark) 3. 24,000 years (1mark for 24, 1 for thousand, and 1 mark for years) 4. 5600 years (1m for  between 5000 and 6000 and 1m for years) 5. 12,000 years (1 mark for 9,000 – 12,000 and 1 mark for years) 72,000 years (1 mark for 3x the answer to questions 3 and 1 mark for years) Total = 12 marks

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Half life from graphs

  • 1. Half life from Graphs Answer these questions on paper . The answers are at the end. Do not look at the answers until you have completed all the questions.
  • 2. 1. What percentage of Plutonium is left after 56,000 years?
  • 3. 2. Which isotope has the shortest half life C-14 or Pu-239?
  • 4. 3. What is the half life of Pu-239?
  • 5. 4. What is the approximate half life of C-14?
  • 6. 5. How long does it take for the activity of the C-14 sample to fall to one quarter of its initial value?
  • 7. 6. How long does it take for the activity of the Pu-239 sample to fall to one eighth of its initial value?
  • 8. Answers 1. 20% (1 mark for 20 and 1 mark for %) 2. Carbon 14 or C-14 (1 mark) 3. 24,000 years (1mark for 24, 1 for thousand, and 1 mark for years) 4. 5600 years (1m for between 5000 and 6000 and 1m for years) 5. 12,000 years (1 mark for 9,000 – 12,000 and 1 mark for years) 72,000 years (1 mark for 3x the answer to questions 3 and 1 mark for years) Total = 12 marks