A radioactive nuclide can decay simultaneously by two different processes which have decay constants \lambda_1 and \lambda_2 . The effective decay constant of the nuclide is \lambda

\\lambda = \\lambda _ { 1 } + \\lambda _ { 2 }

\\lambda =1/2( \\lambda _ { 1 } + \\lambda _ { 2 })

1/\\lambda = 1/\\lambda _ { 1 } +1/ \\lambda _ { 2 }

\\lambda = \sqrt{ \\lambda_ { 1 } \\lambda _ { 2 } }

AP and TS EAMCET Engineering Model Paper 11

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A radioactive nuclide can decay simultaneously by two different processes which have decay constants λ1 and λ2 . The effective decay constant of the nuclide is λ

λ=λ1+λ2
λ=
1
2
(λ1+λ2)
1
λ
=
1
λ1
+
1
λ2
λ=√λ1λ2

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