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JEE Main 25 July 2021, Shift 1, Physics Q5

Question 5 of 90 in this shift, Physics question 5 of 30, Section A.

Some nuclei of a radioactive material are undergoing radioactive decay. The time gap between the instances when a quarter of the nuclei have decayed and when half of the nuclei have decayed is given as : (where λ\lambda is the decay constant)
  1. (1)ln⁡32λ\frac{\ln\frac{3}{2}}{\lambda}Official answer
  2. (2)12ln⁡2λ\frac{1}{2}\frac{\ln2}{\lambda}
  3. (3)2ln⁡2λ\frac{2\ln2}{\lambda}
  4. (4)ln⁡2λ\frac{\ln2}{\lambda}

Official answer

Option 1

NTA final key.

Chapter
Nuclei

Same idea in other shifts

Asked 2× in all
  1. 2 Apr 2017 (offline) · Q26A radioactive nucleus A with a half life T, decays into a nucleus B. At t=0t=0, there is no nucleus B. At sometime t, the ratio of the…MediumSingle correct

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