Nuclear Decay Simulation

Authors

S. Sanderson

Publication

Publication Details

Volume: 3 Issue: 2

Date

February 1982

Pages

13

A popular lab exercise uses special dice to simulate radioactive decay. Marked die faces show the decay probability. After shaking and throwing the dice, replace those with marked sides showing with spheres (stable atoms) or dice with different decay probability (radioactive daughters). Use over 200 atoms for a smooth graph.

This program throws, examines and exchanges dice. You get data to plot a decay chain from radioactive parent to stable population.

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