Coursebook 29.8 (9702 A Level) · Nuclear physics

29.8Activity and half-life

Syllabus section: Decay constant λ and half-life

The random nature of radioactive decay, activity and half-life; at A Level, the decay constant, A = λN and x = x₀e^(−λt).

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