Radioactive Decay & Half-Life
Try this: Start with 8 nuclei. After one half-life, are exactly 4 left?
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About this simulation
Watch a few hundred nuclei decay at their own unpredictable moments, and a curve nobody imposed appear anyway.
Taught in Radioactive Decay
- radioactive decay
- half-life
- activity
- randomness and statistics
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