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a) Radon undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of 3.8 days.What is its decay constant in s-1?

b) Sr -90 (A=90, Z = 38) decays via β- decay.Calculate the energy of the antineutrino (in keV) if the betaparticle has a kinetic energy of 397 keV. Note - you can look theatomic masses up online.

c) What is the average binding energy per nucleon for Argon-40(A=40, Z = 18) in MeV/nucleon? Note - keep 4 significantfigures.

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