Physics Tools

Free physics calculators — radioactive half-life and decay with isotope presets, with lens, wave, Doppler, orbit and relativity tools queued next.

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Physics tools

Why These Tools

Carbon dating, hospital tracer doses and the age of rocks all rest on one equation: after every half-life, half of what was there is gone. Half-Life Calculator solves it for whichever quantity is missing, whether that is the time elapsed, the half-life itself or the amount left, and draws the decay curve next to the answer. Eight isotope presets fill in published half-lives, from 6.01 hours for technetium-99m to 4.468 billion years for uranium-238.

More of a physics course will follow. Lens and mirror equations, Snell's law, Doppler shifts, orbital periods and time dilation are next, each showing its working rather than a bare number.