This activity explains how students use a CBL2 and TI-83 or TI-84 calculator to collect and calculate the half-life of a barium isotope. Students can use an isogenerator to milk out a meta stable isotope of Barium with a short half-life. Using a radiation monitor linked to a CBL2, students run the VST APPS program and collect data for decay of Ba-137m.

Concepts

nuclear chemistry

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Additional Tags

half life, half-life lab, ti, texas instruments, radioactive decay and particles

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)