Forensic Archeology

     This is the data table we created Microsoft Excel. We had to cut out 567 small pieces of paper and place them in the cup. We would then drop all our slips of paper onto a surface, and count all the slips that landed face up. We repeated this 6 times, to simulate the radioactive decay of a substance with a half-life of ten years over a course of 60 years.

     Though it was a pain to count all the tiny slips of paper, I learned a lot from this lab, and definitely have a greater understanding of half-life