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    This document describes an experiment to simulate radioactive decay. 100 coins are placed in a container and shaken, then coins that land tails up are removed and counted each round. The number of heads remaining is recorded over multiple rounds to generate decay data that is then graphed and analyzed to find half-lives, the number of rounds taken for the sample to decay to 50%, 25%, and 12.5% of its original size.

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    This document describes an experiment to simulate radioactive decay. 100 coins are placed in a container and shaken, then coins that land tails up are removed and counted each round. The number of heads remaining is recorded over multiple rounds to generate decay data that is then graphed and analyzed to find half-lives, the number of rounds taken for the sample to decay to 50%, 25%, and 12.5% of its original size.

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    This document describes an experiment to simulate radioactive decay. 100 coins are placed in a container and shaken, then coins that land tails up are removed and counted each round. The number of heads remaining is recorded over multiple rounds to generate decay data that is then graphed and analyzed to find half-lives, the number of rounds taken for the sample to decay to 50%, 25%, and 12.5% of its original size.

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    Title: Radioactivity

    Aim: To stimulate radioactivity


    Materials and Apparatus:
    - 100 coins
    - 1 container
    Diagram:

    Method:
    1. Place 120 coins into a container.
    2. Shake the container.
    3. Throw all the coins onto a table.
    4. Remove all the coins that landed on ‘tails’.
    5. Count all the coins remaining.
    6. Repeat until there are no coins remaining.

    Results:

    Number of Throws Number of heads


    remaining

    5
    6

    Data Analysis:
    1. Plot a graph of number of heads remaining versus the number of throws.
    2. From the graph, interpolate at 50 heads, 25 heads and 12.5 heads to get the corresponding
    number of elapsed throws for each
    3. Find the 1st, 2nd and 3rd half-lives (measured in throws) from these elapsed throw numbers
    4. Find the average half-life (measured in throws)

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