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 Saturday, Jan. 26, by 8:00 A.M. The lab report is due by 8:00 A.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 29 – save as a PDF to both your Google Drive Chemistry Shared folder AND turnitin.com.

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: 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 “4th Period Chem Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. Toss 0 – 200 m&m
    Toss 1 – 110 m&m
    Toss 2 – 52 m&m
    Toss 3 – 34 m&m
    Toss 5 – 19 m&m
    Toss 6 – 14 m&m
    Toss 7 – 9 m&m
    Toss 8 – 5 m&m
    Toss 9 – 2 m&m
    Toss 10 – 0 m&m

  2. Toss 0- 200 m&m
    Toss 1- 101 m&m
    Toss 2- 59 m&m
    Toss 3- 37 m&m
    Toss 4- 20 m&m
    Toss 5- 15 m&m
    Toss 6- 11 m&m
    Toss 7- 5 m&m
    Toss 8- 5 m&m
    Toss 9- 4 m&m
    Toss 10- 3 m&m
    Toss 11- 0 m&m

  3. Toss 0- 200 m&m
    Toss 1- 96 m&m
    Toss 2- 53 m&m
    Toss 3- 30 m&m
    Toss 4- 18 m&m
    Toss 5- 14 m&m
    Toss 6- 7 m&m
    Toss 7- 3 m&m
    Toss 8- 2 m&m
    toss 9- 0 m&m

  4. Toss 0- 200
    Toss 1- 90
    Toss 2- 56
    Toss 3- 30
    Toss 4- 14
    Toss 5- 5
    Toss 6- 3
    Toss 7- 2
    Toss 8- 2
    Toss 9- 2
    Toss 10- 1
    Toss 11- 0

  5. Toss 0- 200 m&m
    Toss 1- 111 m&m
    Toss 2- 53 m&m
    Toss 3- 32 m&m
    Toss 4- 19 m&m
    Toss 5- 11 m&m
    Toss 6- 4 m&m
    Toss 7- 3 m&m
    Toss 8- 2 m&m
    Toss 9- 2 m&m
    Toss 10- 1 m&m
    Toss 11- 1 m&m
    Toss 12- 0 m&m

  6. Toss 0- 200 skittles
    Toss 1- 95 skittles
    Toss 2- 51 skittles
    Toss 3- 27 skittles
    Toss 4- 11 skittles
    Toss 5- 7 skittles
    Toss 6- 5 skittles
    Toss 7- 5 skittles
    Toss 8- 4 skittles
    Toss 9- 2 skittles
    Toss 10- 1 skittle
    Toss 11- 0 skittles

  7. Toss 0- 200
    Toss 1-106
    Toss 2- 58
    Toss 3- 34
    Toss 4-18
    Toss 5-15
    Toss 6-10
    Toss 7- 9
    Toss 8- 6
    Toss 9- 5
    Toss 10- 3
    Toss 11- 0

  8. Toss 0 – 200 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 1 – 104 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 2 – 60 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 3 – 39 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 4 – 18 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 5 – 8 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 6 – 3 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 7 – 2 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 8 – 1 skittles (radioactive nuclei)
    Toss 9 – 0 skittles (radioactive nuclei)

  9. Toss 0 – 200 m&m’s
    Toss 1 – 119 m&m’s
    Toss 2 – 69 m&m’s
    Toss 3 – 41 m&m’s
    Toss 4 – 22 m&m’s
    Toss 5 – 15 m&m’s
    Toss 6 – 10 m&m’s
    Toss 7 – 5 m&m’s
    Toss 8 – 4 m&m’s
    Toss 9 – 4 m&m’s
    Toss 10 – 2 m&m’s
    Toss 11 – 2 m&m’s
    Toss 12 – 0 m&m’s

  10. Toss 0 – 200
    Toss 1 – 94
    Toss 2 – 43
    Toss 3 – 21
    Toss 4 – 14
    Toss 5 – 10
    Toss 6 – 7
    Toss 8 – 5
    Toss 9 – 4
    Toss 10 – 4
    Toss 11- 2
    Toss 12 – 1
    Toss 13 – 0

  11. Toss 0 – 200
    Toss 1 – 121
    Toss 2 – 56
    Toss 3 – 32
    Toss 4 – 17
    Toss 5 – 12
    Toss 6 – 7
    Toss 8 – 4
    Toss 9 – 2
    Toss 10 – 2
    Toss 11 – 1
    Toss 12 – 0

    • Just realized I messed up on this and I cant count
      My toss 8 is my toss 7
      My toss 9 is my toss 8
      My toss 10 is my toss 9
      Etc…
      Sorry!

  12. toss 0 – 200
    toss 1 – 85
    toss 2 – 40
    toss 3 – 18
    toss 4 – 13
    toss 5 – 6
    toss 6 – 2
    toss 7 – 1
    toss 8 – 0

  13. 0 toss-0 radioactive
    1 toss- 93 radioactive
    2 toss- 47
    3 toss- 25
    4 toss- 10
    5 toss- 4
    6 toss- 2
    7 toss- 1
    8 toss- 1
    9 toss- 0

  14. Toss 0 – 200 m&m’s
    Toss 1 – 111 m&m’s
    Toss 2 – 57 m&m’s
    Toss 3 – 24 m&m’s
    Toss 4 – 13 m&m’s
    Toss 5 – 7 m&m’s
    Toss 6 – 5 m&m’s
    Toss 7 – 2 m&m’s
    Toss 8 – 1 m&m
    Toss 9 – 1 m&m
    Toss 10 – 0 m&m’s

  15. Toss 0= 200 m&m’s
    Toss 1= 98 m&m’s
    Toss 2= 44 m&m’s
    Toss 3= 25 m&m’s
    Toss 4= 15 m&m’s
    Toss 5= 9 m&m’s
    Toss 6= 4 m&m’s
    Toss 7= 2 m&m’s
    Toss 8= 1 m&m
    Toss 9= 0 m&m’s

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