Here, this is our rate constant k but now it’s our decay constant k. Here we still have rate but instead of saying Rate Law, we’re saying Decay Rate. Since we’re dealing with radioactive systems now, it's basically this equation just changed a little bit. When it comes to kinetics, we’re going to say that Rate Law equals our rate constant k times the concentration of our reactant to some power. We’re going to say when it comes to radioactive decay, we're going to basically follow those Integrated Rate Laws just a little bit differently. If you’ve seen my earlier videos on chemical kinetics, you should be very familiar on how exactly we’re going to solve these types of questions because when it came to chemical kinetics, we did the Integrated Rate Laws. This kind of follows what we learned earlier when it comes to kinetics. We’re going to say here it's a first-order process whose rate is proportional to the number of radioactive nuclei N, where k is a first-order rate constant called the decay constant. We’re going to say when it comes to radioactive decay, it’s going to follow a first-order mechanistic step.

Hey guys! In this new video, we're going to take a look at radioactive decay rates.

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