An archaeologist analyses the wood in a prehistoric structure and finds that the ratio of $C^{14}$ (half-life $= 5700 \, years$) to $C^{12}$ is only one-fourth of that found in the cells of buried plants. The age of the wood is about .......... $years$.

$A$ parent nucleus $X$ decays into a daughter nucleus $Y$,which in turn decays into $Z$. The half-lives of $X$ and $Y$ are $40000 \, yr$ and $20 \, yr$,respectively. In a certain sample,it is found that the number of $Y$ nuclei hardly changes with time. If the number of $X$ nuclei in the sample is $4 \times 10^{20}$,the number of $Y$ nuclei present in it is

$A$ radioactive nucleus decays by two different processes. The half-life of the first process is $5$ minutes and that of the second process is $30\,s$. The effective half-life of the nucleus is calculated to be $\frac{\alpha}{11}\,s$. The value of $\alpha$ is $..............$

In a radioactive disintegration,the ratio of the initial number of atoms to the number of atoms present at an instant of time equal to its mean life is:

The activity of a freshly prepared radioactive sample is $10^{10}$ disintegrations per second,whose mean life is $10^9 \ s$. The mass of an atom of this radioisotope is $10^{-25} \ kg$. The mass (in $mg$) of the radioactive sample is

Two radioactive materials $X_1$ and $X_2$ contain the same number of nuclei. If $6\lambda \, s^{-1}$ and $4\lambda \, s^{-1}$ are the decay constants of $X_1$ and $X_2$ respectively,the ratio of the number of undecayed nuclei of $X_1$ to that of $X_2$ will be $\left( \frac{1}{e} \right)$ after a time: