6th Period Chem Half-Life Simulation Lab

Hey guys – this is where 6th 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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17 thoughts on “6th Period Chem Half-Life Simulation Lab

  1. My first toss ended up leaving me 119 radioactive nuclei. Second toss left me with 52 radioactive nuclei. Third Todd left me 22 radioactive nuclei. Fourth toss left me with 16 radioactive nuclei. Fifth toss left me with 4 radioactive nuclei. Sixth toss left me with 2 radioactive nuclei. Seventh Ross left me with 1 radioactive nuclei. Finally my eighth Ross left me with 0 radioactive nuclei

  2. Toss: 0- number of radioactive nuclei-200 prediction-100
    Toss 1- number of radioactive nuclei-105 prediction-53
    Toss 2- number of radioactive nuclei-58 prediction-25
    Toss 3- number of radioactive nuclei-23 prediction-10
    Toss 4- number of radioactive nuclei-11 prediction-4
    Toss 5- number of radioactive nuclei-5 prediction-2
    Toss 6- number of radioactive nuclei-1 prediction-0
    Toss 7- number of radioactive nuclei-0

  3. Toss: 0-number of radioactive nuclei-200 prediction- 72
    Toss:1-number of radioactive nuclei-90 prediction-40
    Toss: 2-number of radioactive nuclei-49 prediction-23
    Toss: 3-number of radioactive nuclei-23 prediction-10
    Toss: 4-number of radioactive nuclei-10 prediction-2
    Toss: 5-number of radioactive nuclei- 8 prediction- 5
    Toss: 6-number of radioactive nuclei-2 prediction-0
    Toss: 7-number of radioactive nuclei-0

  4. Toss 0- Number of radioactive nuclei=106
    Toss 0-Prediction for next toss=70
    Toss 1- Number of radioactive nuclei=60
    Toss 1-Prediction for next toss=23
    Toss 2- Number of radioactive nuclei=34
    Toss 2-Prediction for next toss=12
    Toss 3- Number of radioactive nuclei=19
    Toss 3-Prediction for next toss=10
    Toss 4- Number of radioactive nuclei=8
    Toss 4-Prediction for next toss=4
    Toss 5- Number of radioactive nuclei=1
    Toss 5-Prediction for next toss=0
    Toss 6- Number of radioactive nuclei=0

  5. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei prediction-100
    Toss 1- 130 radioactive nuclei prediction- 80
    Toss 2- 95 radioactive nuclei prediction- 73
    Toss 3- 75 radioactive nuclei prediction- 54
    Toss 4- 46 radioactive nuclei prediction- 38
    Toss 5- 16 radioactive nuclei prediction- 7
    Toss 6- 10 radioactive nuclei prediction- 4
    Toss 7- 3 radioactive nuclei prediction- 2
    Toss 8- 0 radioactive nuclei

  6. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 100
    Toss 1- 102 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 58
    Toss 2- 62 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 24
    Toss 3- 42 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 20
    Toss 4- 28 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 12
    Toss 5- 18 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 10
    Toss 6- 14 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 8
    Toss 7- 12 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 6
    Toss 8- 10 radioactive nuclei, prediction- 6
    Toss 9- 4 radioactive nuclei, prediction-0
    Toss 10- 0 radioactive nuclei

  7. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei /prediction-140
    Toss 1- 90 radioactive nuclei /prediction- 50
    Toss 2- 50 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 40
    Toss 3- 32 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 19
    Toss 4- 26 radioactive nuclei /prediction- 10
    Toss 5- 23 radioactive nuclei /prediction-11
    Toss 6- 8 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 4
    Toss 7- 5 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 2
    Toss 8- 2 radioactive nuclei /prediction- 1

  8. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei /prediction-80
    Toss 1- 120 radioactive nuclei /prediction- 60
    Toss 2- 65 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 30
    Toss 3- 37 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 23
    Toss 4- 30 radioactive nuclei /prediction- 20
    Toss 5- 19 radioactive nuclei /prediction-7
    Toss 6- 4 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 2
    Toss 7- 3 radioactive nuclei/ prediction- 1
    Toss 8- 1 radioactive nuclei /prediction- 1
    Toss 9- 0 radioactive nuclei

  9. Toss 0- 200 radioactive nuclei ;prediction-120
    Toss 1- 90 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 80
    Toss 2- 50 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 45
    Toss 3- 32 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 27
    Toss 4- 26 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 15
    Toss 5- 23 radioactive nuclei; prediction-11
    Toss 6- 8 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 6
    Toss 7- 5 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 3
    Toss 8- 2 radioactive nuclei; prediction- 1

  10. Toss 0: 200 radioactive nuclei Prediction: 100
    Toss 1: 93 radioactive nuclei /Prediction: 47
    Toss 2: 44 radioactive nuclei /Prediction: 24
    Toss 3: 29 radioactive nuclei /Prediction: 15
    Toss 4: 15 radioactive nuclei /Prediction: 8
    Toss 5: 6 radioactive nuclei /Prediction: 3
    Toss 6: 3 radioactive nuclei /Prediction: 2
    Toss 7: 1 radioactive nuclei /Prediction 0
    Toss 8: 0 radioactive nuclei

  11. Toss 0: 200 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 125
    Toss 1: 114 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 65
    Toss 2: 64 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 32
    Toss 3: 29 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 15
    Toss 4: 19 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 6
    Toss 5: 11 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 6
    Toss 6: 10 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 5
    Toss 7: 8 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 3
    Toss 8: 8 radioactive nuclei/// Prediction: 4
    Toss 9: 0 radioactive nuclei

  12. Toss: 0- number of radioactive nuclei-200 prediction-166
    Toss 1- number of radioactive nuclei-91 prediction-39
    Toss 2- number of radioactive nuclei-50 prediction-28
    Toss 3- number of radioactive nuclei-32 prediction-12
    Toss 4- number of radioactive nuclei-17 prediction-8
    Toss 5- number of radioactive nuclei-9 prediction-5
    Toss 6- number of radioactive nuclei-6 prediction-4
    Toss 7- number of radioactive nuclei-5 prediction-3
    Toss 8- number of radioactive nuclei-2 prediction- 2
    Toss 9- number of radioactive nuclei-2 prediction-2
    Toss 10- number of radioactive nuclei-2 prediction-2
    Toss 11- number of radioactive nuclei-1

  13. Toss 0: 200 radioactive nuclei /prediction 125
    Toss 1: 111 radioactive nuclei /prediction 60
    Toss 2: 73 radioactive nuclei /prediction 37
    Toss 3: 50 radioactive nuclei /prediction 25
    Toss 4: 25 radioactive nuclei /prediction 13
    Toss 5: 12 radioactive nuclei /prediction 6
    Toss 6: 8 radioactive nuclei /prediction 4
    Toss 7: 2 radioactive nuclei /prediction 1
    Toss 8: 0 radioactive nuclei

  14. Tosses |==|Radioactive Nuclei|==|Prediction|==|
    0 |==|200 |==|100 |==|
    1 |==|101 |==|62 |==|
    2 |==|93 |==|49 |==|
    3 |==|40 |==|25 |==|
    4 |==|22 |==|13 |==|
    5 |==|3 |==|2 |==|
    6 |==|2 |==|1 |==|
    7 |==|2 |==|1 |==|
    8 |==|2 |==|1 |==|
    9 |==|1 |==|0 |==|
    10 |==|0 |==|0 |==|
    11 |==|0 |==|0 |==|

  15. Toss 0: 200 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 100
    Toss 1: 120 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 65
    Toss 2: 49 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 37
    Toss 3: 42 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 35
    Toss 4: 36 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 30
    Toss 5: 28 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 20
    Toss 6: 15 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 10
    Toss 7: 8 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 4
    Toss 8: 6 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 3
    Toss 9: 2 radioactive nuclei
    Prediction: 1
    Toss 10: 0 radioactive nuclei

  16. toss 0 – 93
    toss 1 – 41
    p-45
    toss 2 – 30
    p-30
    toss 3 – 17
    p-17
    toss 4 – 13
    p-11
    toss 5 – 3
    p-7
    toss 6 – 2
    p-1
    toss 7 – 2
    p-0
    toss 8 – 2
    p-0
    toss 9 – 1
    p-1
    toss 10 – 1
    p-1
    toss 11 – 0
    p-0

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