Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 1 (1997), Issue 1, Pages 67-71
doi:10.1155/S1173912697000060
Classroom note: Radioactivity half-lives considered as data
School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, N.S.W., Australia
Copyright © 1997 T. P. Hutchinson. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Half-lives of radioactive nuclides range over more than 20 orders of magnitude. It is striking that, nevertheless, statistical laws may be discovered in these numbers: a log-normal distribution provides a good description.