Monday, August 15, 2011

Application of the concept of Radioactive decay to telephone calls.?

2. The population of radioactive nuclei in a sample is not the only quantity that decays exponentially. The probability that a telephone call will last an amount of time t decays exponentially as t increases. Why? What is the exponentially decaying population in this situation? What event in the telephone situation corresponds to the decay of a nucleus in the radioactivity situation?

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