1. Radioactive Decay Lab Breakout Room
8.01
Radioactive Decay Lab Breakout Room

2. Radioactive Decay
Place 200 candies in the shoe box, lettered sides up. The candies will stand for atoms of a hypothetical radioactive element.
Cover the box and shake it vigorously for three seconds. This is one time interval.
Remove the lid and take out any candies (atoms) that have that are now showing lettered sides down. These candies represent the atoms that decayed during the time interval. Count and record in a data table the number of decayed atoms and the number of remaining, not decayed, atoms.
Continue repeating steps two and three until all atoms have decayed or you have reached 30 seconds on the data table.
Repeat the entire experiment (steps 1–4) a second time and record all data.

3. Radioactive Decay
You will need a data table like this one

4. Radioactive Decay
Run 1

5. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 3 seconds

6. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 6 seconds

7. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 9 seconds

8. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 12 seconds

9. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 15 seconds

10. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 18 seconds

11. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 21 seconds

12. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 24 seconds

13. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
After 27 seconds

14. Radioactive Decay
Run 1
Enter your data here

15. Radioactive Decay
Run 1

16. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
Start a new data table for this run

17. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 3 seconds

18. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 6 seconds

19. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 9 seconds

20. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 12 seconds

21. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 15 seconds

22. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 18 seconds

23. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 21 seconds

24. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
After 24 seconds

25. Radioactive Decay
Run 2
Enter your data here

26. Radioactive Decay
Run 2

27. Remember to answer the post lab question as part of your conclusion
Radioactive Decay
Remember to answer the post lab question as part of your conclusion