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Sahay Sir > Question Answers > NCERT Exemplar Class 12 > Physics > Chapter 13 - Nuclei > Sometimes a radioactive nucleus decays into a nucleus which itself is radioactive . An example is Assume that we start with 1000 38S nuclei at time t=0. the number of 38Cl of count zero at t=0 and will again be zero at t=∞. At what value of t, would the number of counts be a maximum?

Sometimes a radioactive nucleus decays into a nucleus which itself is radioactive . An example is Assume that we start with 1000 38S nuclei at time t=0. the number of 38Cl of count zero at t=0 and will again be zero at t=∞. At what value of t, would the number of counts be a maximum?

Draw a graph showing the variation of decay rate with number of active nuclei.