Law of Radioactive Decay
In an alpha decay, the daughter nucleus produced is itself unstable and undergoes further decay. If the number of parent and daughter nuclei at time are and respectively and their decay constants are and respectively. What condition needs to be satisfied in order for to remain constant?
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Answer: (d)
- Daughter is formed at rate and decays at rate .
- for constant .
- , so the answer is (d).