What Is the Minimum Lifetime of a Nuclear State with 1 eV Uncertainty?

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The energy of a certain nuclear state can be measured with an uncertainty 1 eV. What is the minimum lifetime of this state?

I used (delta_E)(delta_t)=h/(4*pi) and solved for delta_t and got it wrong. Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
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It is the only way to do it. I what sense did you get it wrong...?

Daniel.
 
Numerically. I got 3.291E-16, but the computer didn't accept it...
 
physicsss said:
Numerically. I got 3.291E-16, but the computer didn't accept it...
To three dp, I got 3.297x10^-16, so maybe it's just an approximation error.
 

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