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charge carriers
- In radiation measurement: Scintillators
The decay time determines the rate at which the light is emitted following the excitation and is also characteristic of the particular scintillation material. Decay times range from less than one nanosecond to several microseconds and generally represent the slowest process in the several steps involved…
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damped vibrations
- In mechanics: Damped and forced oscillations
The characteristic decay time (after which the oscillations are smaller by 1/e, where e is the base of the natural logarithms e = 2.718 . . . ) is equal to 2m/γ. The frequency of the oscillations is given by
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