Question 1
Estimate the age of a bottled wine that has a tritium,
3H, content 60% that of freshly bottled wine. Tritium decays by beta decay and has a half-life of 12.3 yr.

◦ 0.029 yr
◦ 7.4 yr
◦ 9.1 yr
◦ 16 yr
◦ 35 yr
Question 2
Find the nuclear binding energy of potassium-40 (atomic mass = 39.9632591 amu) in units of joules per nucleon. [Data: neutron mass = 1.674928 × 10
–24 g; proton mass = 1.672623 × 10
–24g; electron mass = 9.109387 × 10
–28 g; N
A = 6.0221367 × 10
23 /mol; c = 2.99792458 × 10
8 m/s]
◦ 1.37 × 10
–12 J/nucleon
◦ 5.48 × 10
–11 J/nucleon
◦ 5.64 × 10
–11 J/nucleon
◦ 1.41 × 10
–12 J/nucleon
◦ 2.97 × 10
–12 J/nucleon