If the half-life of a radioactive sample is $10\, hours$,its mean life is .......... $hours$.

Explain the decay constant and write down its definition.

The activity of a sample of a radioactive material is ${A_1}$ at time ${t_1}$ and ${A_2}$ at time ${t_2}$ $({t_2} > {t_1})$. If its mean life is $T$,then:

$A$ solution containing active cobalt ${}_{27}^{60}Co$ having activity of $0.8\,\mu Ci$ and decay constant $\lambda$ is injected into an animal's body. If $1\,cm^3$ of blood is drawn from the animal's body after $10\,hrs$ of injection,the activity found is $300\,decays$ per minute. What is the total volume of blood in the animal's body in litres? (Given: $1\,Ci = 3.7 \times 10^{10}$ decays per second and at $t = 10\,hrs$,$e^{-\lambda t} = 0.84$)

The activity of a sample is $64 \times 10^{-5} \, Ci$. Its half-life is $3 \, days$. The activity will become $5 \times 10^{-6} \, Ci$ after ......... $days$.

Mean life of a radioactive sample is $100$ seconds. Then its half-life (in minutes) is