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 Monday, Jan. 27, by 8:00 A.M. The lab report is due by 8:00 A.M. on Friday, Jan. 31 – 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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15 thoughts on “4th Period Chem Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. Toss 0- number of radioactive nuclei- 200 prediction for next toss- 100
    Toss 1- number of radioactive nuclei- 91 prediction for next toss- 45
    Toss 2- number of radioactive nuclei- 40 prediction for next toss- 20
    Toss 3- number of radioactive nuclei- 22 prediction for next toss- 11
    Toss 4- number of radioactive nuclei- 11 prediction for next toss- 6
    Toss 5- number of radioactive nuclei- 6
    prediction for next toss- 3
    Toss 6- number of radioactive nuclei- 4
    prediction for next toss- 2
    Toss 7- number of radioactive nuclei- 2
    prediction for next toss- 1
    Toss 8- number of radioactive nuclei- 1
    prediction for next toss- 0
    Toss 9- number of radioactive nuclei- 1
    prediction for next toss- 0
    Toss 10- number of radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction for next toss- 0

  2. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei, 100 prediction
    Toss 1- 95 radioactive nuclei, 30 prediction
    Toss 2- 39 radioactive nuclei, 15 prediction
    Toss 3- 13 radioactive nuclei, 5 prediction
    Toss 4- 8 radioactive nuclei, 3 prediction
    Toss 5- 2 radioactive nuclei, 0 prediction
    Toss 6- 1 radioactive nuclei, 0 prediction
    Toss 7- 0 radioactive nuclei, 0 prediction

  3. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei- 150 predicton
    Toss 1- 114 radioactive nuclei- 80 prediction
    Toss 2- 70 radioactive nuclei- 40 prediction
    Toss 3- 37 radioactive nuclei- 20 prediction
    Toss 4- 16 radioactive nuclei- 8 prediction
    Toss 5- 8 radioactive nuclei- 5 prediction
    Toss 6- 3 radioactive nuclei- 2 prediction
    Toss 7- 2 radioactive nuclei- 1 prediction
    Toss 8- 2 radioactive nuclei- 1 prediction
    Toss 9- 1 radioactive nuclei- 1 prediction
    Toss 10- 0 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction

  4. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei- 92 prediction
    Toss 1-115 radioactive nuclei- 56 prediction
    Toss 2- 54 radioactive nuclei- 29 prediction
    Toss 3- 31 radioactive nuclei- 12 prediction
    Toss 4- 12 radioactive nuclei- 5 prediction
    Toss 5- 7 radioactive nuclei- 3 prediction
    Toss 6- 3 radioactive nuclei- 1 prediction
    Toss7- 0 radioactive nuclei

  5. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei-100 prediction
    Toss-1-107radioactive nuclei- 70 prediction
    Toss-2-64 radioactive nuclei-50 prediction
    Toss-3-35 radioactive nuclei- 15 prediction
    Toss-4-24 radioactive nuclei-10 prediction
    Toss-5-20 radioactive nuclei-11 prediction
    Toss-6- 15 radioactive nuclei- 12 prediction
    Toss-7- 14 radioactive nuclei – 13 prediction
    Toss-8- 11 radioactive nuclei- 9 prediction
    Toss-9-10 radioactive nuclei- 8 prediction
    Toss-10-7 radioactive nuclei- 5 prediction
    Toss-11- 3 radioactive nuclei- 2 prediction
    Toss-12-1 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction
    Toss-13- 0 radioactive nuclei

  6. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei- 100 prediction
    Toss 1- 114 radioactive nuclei-80 prediction
    Toss 2- 60 radioactive nuclei- 30 prediction
    Toss 3- 41 radioactive nuclei- 22 prediction
    Toss 4- 20 radioactive nuclei-15 prediction
    Toss 5-11 radioactive nuclei-6 prediction
    Toss 6- 6 radioactive nuclei- 3 prediction
    Toss 7- 4 radioactive nuclei- 1 prediction
    Toss 8- 3 radioactive nuclei- 2 prediction
    Toss 9- 3 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction
    Toss 10- 0 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction

  7. Toss 0- radioactive nuclei 200- prediction 100
    Toss1- radioactive nuclei 102- prediction 54
    Toss 2- radioactive nuclei 56- prediction 20
    Toss 3- radioactive nuclei 25- prediction 10
    Toss 4- radioactive nuclei 18- prediction 12
    Toss 5- radioactive nuclei 6- prediction 2
    Toss 6- radioactive nuclei 4- prediction 2
    Toss 7- radioactive nuclei 3- prediction 1
    Toss 8- radioactive nuclei 1- prediction 0
    Toss 9- radioactive nuclei 0- prediction 0

  8. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei- 98 prediction
    Toss 1- 93 radioactive nuclei- 60 prediction
    Toss 2- 58 radioactive nuclei- 33 prediction
    Toss 3- 31 radioactive nuclei- 20 prediction
    Toss 4- 23 radioactive nuclei- 17 prediction
    Toss 5- 20 radioactive nuclei- 12 prediction
    Toss 6- 16 radioactive nuclei- 9 prediction
    Toss 7- 11 radioactive nuclei- 7 prediction
    Toss 8- 10 radioactive nuclei- 8 prediction
    Toss 9- 7 radioactive nuclei- 6 prediction
    Toss 10- 3 radioactive nuclei- 2 prediction
    Toss 11- 1 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction
    Toss 12- 0 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction

  9. toss O- number of radioactive nuclei 200 prediction- 100
    toss 1- number of radioactive nuclei-104 prediction-63
    toss2- number of radioactive nuclei- 60 prediction- 20
    toss 3- number of radioactive nuclei- 42 prediction- 30
    toss 4- number of radioactive nuclei- 28 prediction- 16
    toss 5- number of radioactive nuclei- 14 prediction- 8
    toss 6- number of radioactive nuclei- 8 prediction- 3
    toss 7- number of radioactive nuclei- 6 prediction- 4
    toss 8- number of radioactive nuclei-6 prediction-4
    toss 9- number of radioactive nuclei- 5 prediction- 2
    toss 10- number of radioactive nuclei-5

  10. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei- 84 prediction
    Toss 1- 95 radioactive nuclei- 56 prediction
    Toss 2- 58 radioactive nuclei- 22 prediction
    Toss 3- 40 radioactive nuclei- 21 prediction
    Toss 4- 22 radioactive nuclei- 11 prediction
    Toss 5- 17 radioactive nuclei- 10 prediction
    Toss 6- 11 radioactive nuclei- 4 prediction
    Toss 7- 5 radioactive nuclei- 2 prediction
    Toss 8- 1 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction
    Toss 9- 0 radioactive nuclei- 0 prediction

  11. Toss 0- 200 radioactive- prediction 115
    Toss 1- 120 radioactive- prediction 65
    Toss 2- 61 radioactive- prediction 28
    Toss 3- 31radioactive- prediction 16
    Toss 4- 17 radioactive- prediction 8
    Toss 5- 9 radioactive- prediction 5
    Toss 6- 4 radioactive- prediction 2
    Toss 7- 2 radioactive- prediction 1
    Toss 8- 1 radioactive- prediction 0
    Toss 9- 1 radioactive- prediction 0
    Toss 10- 0 radioactive

  12. Toss 0 – 200 radioactive nuclei 87 prediction
    Toss 1- 97 radioactive nuclei 46 prediction
    Toss 2- 65 radioactive nuclei 20 prediction
    Toss 3- 46 radioactive nuclei 40 prediction
    Toss 4- 30 radioactive nuclei 15 prediction
    Toss 5- 21 radioactive nuclei 10 prediction
    Toss 6- 15 radioactive nuclei 8 prediction
    Toss 7- 10 radioactive nuclei 10 prediction
    Toss 8- 8 radioactive nuclei 6 prediction
    Toss 9- 3 radioactive nuclei 0 prediction
    Toss 10- 0 radioactive nuclei 0 prediction

  13. Toss 0- radioactive nuclei 200- prediction 104
    Toss1- radioactive nuclei 97 – prediction 47
    Toss 2- radioactive nuclei 56- prediction 30
    Toss 3- radioactive nuclei 41- prediction 20
    Toss 4- radioactive nuclei 32- prediction 20
    Toss 5- radioactive nuclei 19- prediction 8
    Toss 6- radioactive nuclei 11- prediction 7
    Toss 7- radioactive nuclei 5- prediction 3
    Toss 8- radioactive nuclei 3- prediction 2
    Toss 9- radioactive nuclei 3- prediction 2
    Toss 10- radioactive nuclei 1- prediction 0
    Toss 11- radioactive nuclei 0- prediction 0

  14. Toss 0 – 200 radioactive nuclei – prediction 100
    Toss 1 – 111 radioactive nuclei – prediction 55
    Toss 2 – 60 radioactive nuclei – prediction 30
    Toss 3 – 30 radioactive nuclei – prediction 15
    Toss 4 – 19 radioactive nuclei – prediction 10
    Toss 5 – 15 radioactive nuclei – prediction 7
    Toss 6 – 10 radioactive nuclei – prediction 5
    Toss 7 – 7 radioactive nuclei – prediction 4
    Toss 8 – 3 radioactive nuclei – prediction 1
    Toss 9 – 2 radioactive nuclei – prediction 1
    Toss 10 – 1 radioactive nuclei- prediction 0
    Toss 11 – 0 radioactive nuclei

  15. Toss 0 – 200 radioactive nuclei prediction- 86/ Toss 1- 95 radioactive nuclei prediction- 27/ Toss 2- 46 radioactive nuclei prediction- 38/ Toss 3- 23 radioactive nuclei prediction- 15/ Toss 4- 13 radioactive nuclei prediction- 9/ Toss 5- 3 radioactive nuclei prediction- 1/ Toss 6- 0 radioactive nuclei prediction- 2/ Toss 7- 2 radioactive nuclei prediction- 1/ Toss 8- 0 radioactive nuclei prediction- 1/ Toss 9- 1 radioactive nuclei prediction- 1/
    Toss 10- 1

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