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1. "' Partial mean life "'associated with individual processes is by definition the multiplicative inverse of corresponding partial decay constant : \ tau = 1 / \ lambda.
2. In other words, you multiply the function by a decaying exponential function before you take its Fourier transform, and & sigma; is the decay constant of that exponential function.
3. Both fission-like and alpha-like approaches are able to express the decay constant \ lambda = ln 2 / T c, as a product of three model-dependent quantities
4. He was also a member of the Carnegie group that accurately determined the decay constants of potassium and rubidium, an effort that has also become fundamental to the measurement of geological time.
5. Thus the decay constant is found empirically and is used to interpret the signal obtained during the lateral scan and to set a feedback point for the piezoelectric transducer during constant signal scanning.
6. Terms " partial half-life " and " partial mean life " denote quantities derived from a decay constant as if the given decay mode were the only decay mode for the quantity.
7. This rate is parametrized by the pion decay constant ( " & fnof; " ? ), related to the wave function overlap of the quark and antiquark, which is about.
8. where the subscripts P and I refer to present-day and initial Pb isotope ratios, ? 235 and ? 238 are decay constants for 235 U and 238 U, and t is the age.
9. However, for a collection of atoms of a single element the decay rate, and thus the half-life ( t 1 / 2 ) for that collection can be calculated from their measured decay constants.
10. Although the decay constant is typically determined through empirical methods, detailed mathematical models of probe-sample coupling interactions that account for probe tip geometry and sample distance have been published by Goumri-Said et al.