Acertain radioactive isotope placed near a geiger counter registers 120 counts per minute. if the half-life of the isotope is one day, what will the count rate be at the end of four days?

The count rate at the end of four days will be 7.5 counts per minute.

Explanation:

First it is important to know that half-life is the time to a piece of radioactive material to decay 50%. So if we know we start with 120 counts per minute and we already know the half-life of the isotope is 1 hour we expect that past 1 hour the material decays 50% (it's halved) so we will count 60 counts per minute, now if we wait another hour 60 counts will decay in to 30 counts per minute and so on. That should be translate to a math equation as:

final counts = initial counts *

After 4 days we have 4 half-life periods passed so:

final counts= 120 counts per minute *

final material = 7.5 counts per minute

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air exerts forces on falling objects near earth’s surface.

explanation:

the term 'free falls' refer to object that are falling towards the earth, in a situation in which gravity is the only force acting on the object.

for an object in free fall, the acceleration is constant (g, the gravitational acceleration), and so the velocity of the object constantly increases.

for objects near earth's surface, there is always another force acting on the object: the resistance due to the air. this force is opposed to the direction of fall of the object, and it is proportional to the velocity of the object, so as the object falls down, this force increases up to a point when it balances the force of gravity, and the object continues its motion at constant velocity (called terminal velocity). since in this case gravity is not the only force acting on the object, we are not in a situation of free fall.