Re: Physics Question

From	Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: Physics Question
Date	2016-07-08 16:32 -0500
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On 7/8/2016 4:12 PM, benj wrote:
> On 7/8/2016 11:11 AM, Odd Bodkin wrote:
>> On 7/8/2016 10:06 AM, Michael Moroney wrote:
>>> Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Dne 07/07/2016 v 15:28 Sergio napsal(a):
>>>>> 1. A sample of radioactive nuclei of a certain element can decay
>>>>> only by
>>>>> gamma-emission and beta-emission. If the half-life for
>>>>> gamma-emission is
>>>>> 24 minutes and that for beta-emission is 36 minutes, the half-life for
>>>>> the sample is
>>>>>
>>>>> (A) 30 minutes
>>>>> (B) 24 minutes
>>>>> (C) 20.8 minutes
>>>>> (D) 14.4 minutes
>>>>> (E) 6 minutes
>>>>>
>>>> F: Incomplete scenario definition without probabilities.
>>>
>>> The half-lives give the probabilities.
>>
>> Right, and the answer is D, I believe.
>>
>>>
>>>> Aside of that, gamma emission itself is not radioactive decay,
>>>> it is releasing energy of excited kernel.
>>>
>>> Some isotopes have "meta" (excited) states that can give off
>>> a gamma to become the ground state.  Some of these isomers
>>> can also decay radioactively to something else by giving off an
>>> alpha or beta.  And sometimes the ground state can't decay
>>> the same way the isomer can.
>
> As usual, amateur Boinker goes for the simplest answer which is wrong.

Then what's the answer and why?

>
> MM and Pouter have the correct information.

Poutnik said there was probability information missing, and Michael 
rightly pointed out that the probability information is expressed in the 
half-lives. Poutnik then agreed. So what information do you think is 
missing?

>
> But then shooting off your mouth when you have insufficient information
> is what Boinker calls science.
>


-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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Physics Question Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-07 08:28 -0500
  Re: Physics Question Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-07-08 09:02 +0200
    Re: Physics Question Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-08 09:19 -0500
    Re: Physics Question moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-07-08 15:06 +0000
      Re: Physics Question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-08 10:11 -0500
        Re: Physics Question benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-08 17:12 -0400
          Re: Physics Question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-08 16:32 -0500
            Re: Physics Question Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-07-10 11:15 -0500
              Re: Physics Question Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-07-10 19:25 +0000
                Re: Physics Question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 15:43 -0500
                Re: Physics Question Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-07-10 21:52 +0000
                Re: Physics Question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 07:50 -0500
                Re: Physics Question Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 17:04 +0200
                Re: Physics Question moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-07-11 01:20 +0000
      Re: Physics Question Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-07-08 19:01 +0200
        Re: Physics Question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-09 21:28 +0200
          Re: Physics Question moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-07-10 02:18 +0000
    Re: Physics Question Fabian Russell <fb@zen.info> - 2016-07-09 17:11 +0000

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