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10.43 The unstable isotope 135Te (atomic weight 135) decays according to:
where s–1, s–1, s–1, and s–1. The instan-
taneous amount of each element is determined from the solution of the following system of ODEs:
Use MATLAB’s built-in functions to find the amount of each element present at the following times. Plot
the results using semilog plots where applicable.
(a) 10-second intervals for the first 5 minutes.
(b) 1000-second intervals for the next 9 hours.
The initial conditions are , .
Solution
The differential equations are written in a user-defined function called ODEsHW10_43:
function dydt = ODEsHW10_43(t, y)
k1=5.78e-3; k2=2.87e-5; k3=2.09e-5; k4=1.1e-12;
135Te k1 135I
135I k2 135Xe
135Xe k3 135Cs
135Cs k4 135Ba
dI()
dt
———–k1Te()k2I()–=
dXe()
dt
————-– k2I() k3Xe()–=
dCs()
dt
————-– k3Xe()k4Cs()–=