Hon Chemistry Half-Life Simulation Lab

HON CHEMISTRY: Hey guys – this is where honors chemistry will post results for the Half-Life Simulation lab. You’ll just list your data from the first data table as a comment – just like you comment every week, except this time you are just listing the data from the first data table.

Remember, you don’t have to use candies; you may use coins or anything else that has two sides. Please note that you are to post the number of “radioactive” nuclides remaining after each toss.

Just to clarify, everything on the lab sheets will go in your lab report on that you will submit as a PDF to Google Drive and TurnItIn.com – Title, Objective, Procedure, Observations (with data table), Conclusion, and Questions. Don’t forget that your graph needs to be either a full page graph that you do on Excel or a similar program, or you can draw a full page graph on graph paper, scan a very clean, sharp copy and copy it into your lab report. And don’t forget that the analysis questions, calculations, graph, etc., go after your conclusion.

Happy counting – and wait until AFTER the lab to snack!! 🙂

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11 thoughts on “Hon Chemistry Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. Ok, this is all of my data for the Radioactive Decay: A Sweet Simulation of Half-Life thLab!
    (Before first toss) – 200
    1st Toss – 107
    2nd Toss – 56
    3rd Toss – 26
    4th Toss – 14
    5th Toss – 6
    6th Toss – 2
    7th Toss – 0

  2. Hey guys!
    Before my first toss: 200
    1st Toss: 99
    2nd Toss: 51
    3rd Toss: 23
    4th Toss: 11
    5th Toss: 6
    6th Toss: 4
    7th Toss: 1
    8th Toss: 0
    Good luck everyone!

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