Students will: Define the term half-life Make calculations involving numbers of half-lives Relate half-life to decay...

Lesson 16-19

This episode assumes that students already have an idea of half-life, and links it to the empirical decay curve.

Lesson 16-19

Here, the key idea is the random nature of the decay. Avoid simply pulling pull equations out of the air – at least make them...

Lesson 16-19