4th Period Chem Half-Life Simulation Lab

Hey guys – this is where 4th Period Chemistry posts 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. Don’t forget that your results must be posted by Friday, Jan. 9, by midnight. The lab report is due written up in your lab book on Tuesday, Jan. 13.

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 post on Google Drive (from now on this is your lab book). 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 “4th Period Chem Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. Well in this lab my data is…
    1 roll=102
    2 roll=55
    3 roll=19
    4 roll=12
    5 roll=5
    6 roll=4
    7 roll=1
    8 roll=0
    9 roll=1
    10 roll=1
    This lab taught me about half life and how the nuclides can decay quickly or slowly and how when it decays half of it.

  2. Don’t forget about the help session Tuesday! Had a good week I think I would rank myself about a 5 out of 5
    this week.

  3. My Lab data
    Toss/radioactive Nuclei/ Prediction for toss
    0-200-100
    1-104-52
    2-49-32
    3-22-10
    5-18-12
    6-8-5
    7-5-7
    8-4-1
    9-2-2
    10-2-0
    11-0

  4. Toss/Number of radioactive nuclei/Prediction for next toss
    0-200-125
    1-113-60
    2-56-23
    3-28-19
    4-15-10
    5-11-7
    6-5-2
    7-3-1
    8-2-0
    9-2-1
    10-0-0
    11-0

  5. Toss/#of radioactive nuclei/prediction
    0-200-100
    1-108-54
    2-58-29
    3-38-19
    4-24-12
    5-18-9
    6-11-7
    7-6-3
    8-1-0
    9-0-0

  6. 0-200-100
    1-110-55
    2-49-25
    3-35-18
    4-22-11
    5-20-10
    6-8-4
    7-4-2
    8-1-1
    9-1-0
    10-0-0
    i had a good week. i would rate myself a 4 out of 5!

  7. Toss/# radioactive/prediction
    0/200/113
    1/100/30
    2/46/21
    3/22/9
    4/10/4
    5/4/3
    6/1/1
    7/1/0
    8/1/0
    9/1/1
    10/1/0
    11/0/0

  8. Toss/#of radioactive nuclei/toss prediction
    0-200-102
    1-102-50
    2-54-30
    3-42-26
    4-31-18
    5-21-16
    6-18-12
    7-10-7
    8-2-4
    9-0-0

  9. Toss # – roll – prediction

    0-200-101
    1-139-67
    2-107-49
    3-78-34
    4-67-30
    5-50-25
    6-37-18
    7-14-6
    8-9-4
    9-5-2
    10-2-0
    11-0-0

  10. 0-200-85
    1-94-62
    2-40-17
    3-27-12
    4-14-8
    5-9-4
    6-4-3
    7-0-3
    8-0-3
    9-3-1
    10-0-1
    11-2-1
    12-0-1
    13-1-0
    15-1-0
    16-1-0
    17-0-0

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