Description: In this lab, students investigate basic concepts of time, distance, and shielding; learn radiation survey techniques; and find that many common items contain radioactive material.
Writeup: the radioactivity writeup, based very loosely on elements from Cioffari lab #41
Useful java applets:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html (Go to Nuclear Physics, then Radioactivity.)
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/decayseries.htm
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