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Marty

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The half-life of tritium is 12.3 y. What is its mean life (time constant)?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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If an electron is determined to be at x = 2.000 cm  0.0010 cm, what is the minimum uncertainty in the x component of its velocity? (melectron = 9.11  10-31 kg, h = 6.626  10-34 J  s)
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

17.7 y

Answer to Question 2

5.8 m/s


Marty

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Reply 2 on: Jul 29, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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