Definition: Half-Life Model. If H H is the half-life of a quantity (the amount of time it takes the quantity be cut in half) and P0 P 0 is the initial amount of the quantity then the amount of the quantity present after t units of time is. P(t) = P0(1 2) t H P ( t) = P 0 ( 1 2) t H. Example 4.3.9 4.3. 9.
A medication's half-life is when it takes about half of the medication to leave the body. It takes about five half-lives for a medication dose to leave the body. The half-life of both forms of hydroxyzine ranges from 14 to 25 hours. Thus, the medication can remain in the body for about 70 to 125 hours (five half-lives) after the last dose.
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Strategy. To find the activity R R using the equation R = 0.693N t1/2 R = 0. 693 N t 1 / 2, we must know N N and t1/2 t 1 / 2. The half-life of 14C 14 C can be found in Appendix B, and was stated above as 5730 y. To find N N, we first find the number of 12C 12 C nuclei in 1.00 kg of carbon using the concept of a mole. A half-life is the time it takes for a certain amount of a pesticide to be reduced by half. This occurs as it dissipates or breaks down in the environment. In general, a pesticide will break down to 50% of the original amount after a single half-life. After two half-lives, 25% will remain. About 12% will remain after three half-lives. The shorter the half-life, the more decays per unit time, for a given number of nuclei. So activity R should be proportional to the number of radioactive nuclei, N, and inversely proportional to their half-life, t1/2. In fact, your intuition is correct. It can be shown that the activity of a source is. cmjJA. 195752175725236233129148
