
College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille
Edition 10ISBN: 978-1285737041
College Physics 10th Edition by Raymond Serway,Chris Vuille
Edition 10ISBN: 978-1285737041 Exercise 23
A wooden artifact is found in an ancient tomb. Its carbon-14 (
) activity is measured to be 60.0% of that in a fresh sample of wood from the same region. Assuming the same amount of 14 C was initially present in the artifact as is now contained in the fresh sample, determine the age of the artifact.

Explanation
Use the expression for the activity of t...
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