CALCULUS & POLYNOMIALS

Research
With Leeza Goyal
 Euler's Number - e
The number e is natural or Euler's number
(transcendental and irrational) which is the constant
2.71828, approximately. It is used to model continuous
exponential growth for things such as population and
bacteria growth, radioactive decay and stock prices.
The number e represents an exponential function
when calculating its value at different powers.
 Exponential Decay of
Radioisotope Carbon-14
for Carbon Dating
The exponential decay has
constant half-life which
represents the time taken
by the radioactive isotope
to be reduced/decayed by
half. This is used
extensively by scientists for
carbon dating to
determine the ages of
different objects
discovered etc.
 Carbon-Dating
This innovative process was discovered by Willard Libby in
1946. He found that through this method we could find the
objective age estimations for carbon-based objects that
originated from living organisms.

He found that all living things absorb carbon from the

atmosphere and/or from their food source so when they die,
they stop absorbing the carbon however, the accumulated
radioactive carbon-14 in them continues to decay.

Nearly everything has carbon in it (Organic molecules), so it

has been used extensively by scientists to estimate the age
of many fossils and organisms.
 Carbon - 14
(Radioactive
isotope of
carbon) emits
beta particles at
continuous
exponential rate.
The half-life of
carbon-14 is
5,730 years.
 In a Rabbit's Fossil
Half-Life is given by the formula:
50% of Carbon-14
would decay by 5,730
Half-life of Carbon-14
years.

More than 90% of

Carbon-14 would
decay by 20,000 years
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