Answer to Question #264730 in MatLAB for Sky

Question

The half-life of radium is 1600 years, i.e., it takes 1600 years for half of any quantity to decay. If a sample initially contains 50 g, how long will it be until it contains 45 g by power series method?Write a Matlab code for the above problem

Answer 1

>> n0 = 50;
>> n = 45;
>> half_time = 1600;
>> t = half_time * log2(n0/n)
t =
  243.2049