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Material:
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Natural Radioactive Series
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| Submitted by: |
John Walkup on Jun 07, 2001 |
| Date Last Modified: |
Jun 07, 2001 |
| Title: |
Radioactivity Web Assignment No. 2 |
| Description: |
Web assignment on radioactive decay using an applet
by Yevgeniy Miretskiy. Assignment is qualitative and
requires no mathematical computation. Applet
displays a radioactive sequence that can be animated.
User is then asked questions about the relationship
between the abundances and the half-lives of the
isotopes. List of helpful resources included. |
| Time Required |
Under 30 minutes. |
| Topics: |
Radioactive decay, radioactivity, exponential rate, radioactive sequence. |
| Course: |
Second semester, introductory physics; modern physics. |
| Prerequisites Skills: |
Understanding of basic radioactivity. Knowledge of scientific notation. |
| Learning Objectives: |
To allow the user to understand how the half-life of an isotope affects its abundance in a radioactive decay sequence. |
| Text of Learning Exercise: |
See
http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~walkup/demonstrations/WebAssignments/Radioactivity002.htm
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