Half-life Simulation Prelab

Half-life Simulation Prelab

by Justin Kriske

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In theory, how many heads or tails should you have observed after flipping ten times?

What percent of each (heads/tails) do you predict?

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Does the answer to number 1 match your observed data?

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Calculate the percent heads for your data  

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Share your data with a group near you and pool your results. Your sample size is now 20.

Calculate the "percent heads" for your new data.

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Collect the results from each lab group in your class and determine the number of times (as a class) that heads up was observed,

Calculate the "percent heads" for this data.

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Imagine that you had 100,000-coin tosses. Heads up was Observed 50,300 times. Calculate the "percent heads" for this data

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As the sample size increased, what happened to the 'percent heads" values?

Poll

As the sample size increased, does the data become closer to or farther front matching your predicted values (in terms of percent) from question 1?

• Closer

• Farther