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Homework Statement
I'm looking at a problem from MIT's Open Courseware on radioactive chain decay, i.e. one element decays into another decays into another, finding the quantity at time t.
Homework Equations
The standard linear differential equation governing exponential decay.
The Attempt at a Solution
I'd just like to make sure I'm going about this the right way - to calculate say the amount of substance 2 present at time T you'd solve the differential equation for the first substance finding [tex]N(t) = N_o {e}^-{\lambda t}[/tex], then take that and plug it back into the standard exponential differential equation as the quantity, solve that differential equation etc. God knows I'm not going to try to code it up in Latex, but I'd just like to know that I'm on the right track.