Today, groups whiteboarded one of the three graphs that they prepared last night for homework. They presented how they used it to find the half-life of the sample and we compared and contrasted different approaches and different graphs by different groups. The aggregated data from two classes was great:
One group realized that the area under the plot of number of “nuclei” decayed in a given roll vs. time was the total number of nuclei decayed. They integrated the function that fit the graph to find the half life.
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