Choose the correct option for the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R).
Physics · Nuclear physics · radioactivity and law of decay
Choose the correct option for the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R).
Assertion
A radioactive nucleus that has already survived for ten half-lives is not more likely to decay in the next second than an identical freshly prepared nucleus.
Reason
Radioactive decay is memoryless: for a given nuclide, the conditional decay probability per unit time remains equal to the constant decay rate λ.
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