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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20 thoughts on “Hon Chemistry Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. I would rate myself a 4/5 stars this week. I haven’t been stressed and understand the new material pretty well. Also, i did better in my test than I thought !!

  2. Toss. # of radioactive nuclei. Prediction
    1. 200. 176
    2 97. 43
    3. 45. 21
    4. 23. 12
    5. 14. 5
    6. 6. 3
    7. 1. 0
    8. 0

  3. DATA
    Toss # of radioactive prediction
    0. 200 192
    1. 87 64
    2. 53 37
    3. 29 11
    4. 21 14
    5. 16 9
    6. 14 8
    7. 9 7
    8. 7 4
    9. 4 2
    10. 4 2
    11. 3 1
    12. 2 1
    13. 2 0
    14. 0

  4. toss #of radioactive nuclei. prediction
    0. 200. 100
    1. 98 49
    2. 53. 27
    3. 29. 17
    4. 15. 8
    5. 9. 6
    6. 5. 3
    7. 2. 1
    8. 1. 1
    9. 1. 0
    10. 0

  5. Toss: # of radioactive Nuclei: Prediction for Next Toss
    0. 200 105
    1. 99 53
    2. 47 21
    3. 18 7
    4. 9 5
    5. 6 3
    6. 2 1
    7. 0

  6. Radioactive Decay: A Sweet Simulation of Half-Life
    toss # — Number of radioactive nuclei — Prediction for next toss
    0. 200 161
    1. 102 53
    2. 59 28
    3. 33 17
    4. 14 7
    5. 9 6
    6. 6 4
    7. 3 1
    8. 1 1
    9. 1 1
    10. 1 0
    11. 0 0

  7. Data Table 1
    Toss / # of Radioactive Nuclei / Prediction
    0 / 200 / 100
    1 / 90 / 45
    2 / 45 / 30
    3 / 23 / 11
    4 / 15 / 8
    5 / 5 / 2
    6 / 4 / 1
    7 / 1 / 0
    8 / 0

  8. Toss. # of radioactive nuclei. Prediction.
    0. 200. 117.
    (1) 94. 38.
    (2) 45. 30.
    (3) 25. 9.
    (4) 12. 3.
    (5) 4. 3.
    (6) 2. 2.
    (7) 1. 0.
    (8) 1. 1.
    (9) 0.

  9. (Toss) # of radioactive nuclei. Prediction.
    (0) 200. 117.
    (1) 94. 38.
    (2) 45. 30.
    (3) 25. 9.
    (4) 12. 3.
    (5) 4. 3.
    (6) 2. 2.
    (7) 1. 0.
    (8) 1. 1.
    (9) 0.

  10. Radio Active Decay: A Sweet Simulation of Half-LIfe
    Data Table 1

    Toss/ Number of radioactive nuclei/ Prediction for next toss

    0/ 200/ 104
    1/ 112/ 60
    2/ 79/ 41
    3/ 39/ 23
    4/ 15/ 6
    5/ 4/ 2
    6/ 3/ 2
    7/ 1/ 1
    8/ 0

  11. Radioactive Decay: A Sweet Simulation of Half-Life

    Data Table 1:

    Toss number), Number of radioactive nuclei, Prediction for next toss
    0) 200, 102
    1) 104, 50
    2) 54, 28
    3) 32, 19
    4) 11, 5
    5) 5, 3
    6) 4, 2
    7) 1, 0
    8) 1, 1
    9) 0

  12. Radioactive Decay: A Sweet Simulation of Half-Life
    ——-
    Data Table 1
    Toss.> # of radioactive nuclei / prediction for next toss

    0. 200 / 180
    1. 91 / 42
    2. 46 / 24
    3. 27 / 13
    4. 16 / 9
    5. 8 / 4
    6. 5 / 2
    7. 0

  13. Half-Life Lab
    Data Table 1:
    Number of radioactive nuclei;Prediction for next toss
    0. 200;89
    1. 100;67
    2. 42;21
    3. 25;12
    4. 18;11
    5. 14;7
    6. 6;5
    7. 3;1
    8. 0

  14. Half Life Lab:
    Data Table 1)
    Number of radioactive nuclei/ prediction for next toss
    0. 200, 132
    1. 154, 110
    2. 97, 64
    3. 56, 35
    4. 32, 17
    5. 18, 7
    6. 9, 5
    7. 4,1
    1,0

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