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Radiometric dating of a rock reveals an age of 1.52 billion years. Given that the half-life of the parent isotope used is 14.0 billion years, what percentage of the parent isotope is still present in the rock?
 
  A) 92.8
  B) 10.9
  C) 76.4
  D) 7.26

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A long rope of linear density 0.25 kg/m is under tension. Transverse waves travel on it at 30. m/s. How much energy is stored in 1.0 m of the rope when a driving frequency of 6.0 Hz produces a traveling wave with an amplitude of 0.10 m?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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0.043 J/m


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Reply #2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 27, 2018
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