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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18 thoughts on “Hon Chemistry Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. Toss Number of radioactive nuclei
    0 200
    1 104
    2 59
    3 32
    4 16
    5 10
    6 6
    7 4
    8 2
    9 2
    10 2
    11 0
    Not sure if we have to include the repeats (9,10), but I am doing it anyway.

  2. Toss Number of Radioactive Nuclei Prediction
    0 200 120
    1 101 60
    2 53 24
    3 30 14
    4 14 6
    5 11 3
    6 4 1
    7 2 1
    8 1 0
    9 0 0

  3. Toss- # of radioactive nuclei- prediction
    0- 200- 100
    1- 106- 53
    2- 58- 35
    3- 30- 18
    4- 16- 9
    5- 4- 2
    6- 2- 1
    7- 2- 1
    8- 0- 0

  4. Here are my toss results for the simulation of half-life lab:
    toss 0- 200
    toss 1- 98
    toss 2- 50
    toss 3- 25
    toss 4- 12
    toss 5- 9
    toss 6- 2
    toss 7- 2
    toss 8- 2

  5. Toss – # of radioactive nuclei – prediction
    0 – 200 – 100
    1 – 100 – 50
    2 – 56 – 28
    3 – 28 – 14
    4 – 13 – 6
    5 – 5 – 3
    6 – 4 – 2
    7 – 1 – 1
    8 – 0 – 0

  6. half life toss results
    0 – 200
    1 – 96
    2 – 48
    3 – 25
    4 – 13
    5 – 7
    6 – 5
    7 – 3
    8 – 3
    9 – 2
    10 – 2
    11 – 2
    12 – 1
    13 – 0

  7. Toss // Number of Radioactive Nuclei // Prediction
    0 – 200 – 100
    1 – 106 – 55
    2 – 54 – 26
    3 – 27 – 14
    4 – 12 – 6
    5 – 6 – 3
    6 – 4 – 2
    7 – 1 – 0
    8 – 0 – NA

  8. Toss – Number of Radioactive Nuclei – Prediction

    0 – 200 – 100
    1 – 106 – 44
    2 – 54 – 38
    3 – 30 – 12
    4 – 14 – 8
    5 – 7 – 4
    6 – 4 – 1
    7 – 2 – 2
    8 – 1 – 0
    9 – 0 – NA

  9. Toss–Number of Radioactive Nuclei–Prediction for Next Toss

    0–200–89
    1–106–43
    2–50–21
    3–26–13
    4–13–5
    5–9–6
    6–5–2
    7–3–1
    8–2–2
    9–0–NA

  10. Toss/Number of Radioactive nuclei/Prediction for next toss

    0 200 100
    1 109 55
    2 47 23
    3 20 10
    4 8 4
    5 3 1
    6 1 0
    7 1 0
    8 1 0
    9 0 NA

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