Use applet below and asnwer questions for full points! MAINLY concerned with que
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Use applet below and asnwer questions for full points! MAINLY concerned with question 2, but need references to question 1 to back up the explanation. Thanks!
Applet: http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/lawdecay.htm
1. Pick one atom (usually a corner atom is easier to keep track of). Reset the initial state at least six times, and for each time, determine when this atom decays. When the atom decays, pause the process, and then record the number of nuclei already decayed. When it decays, you can reset to the next trial.
2. It is possible to give the probability that a single atomic nucleus will "survive" during a given interval. This probability amounts to 50 % for one half-life period. In an interval twice as long (2 T) the nucleus survives only with a 25 % probability (half of 50 %), in an interval of three half-life periods (3 T) only with 12.5 % (half of 25 %), and so on. You can't, however, predict the time at which a given atomic nucleus will decay. For example, even if the probability of a decay within the next second is 99 %, it is nevertheless possible (but highly improbable) that the nucleus decays after millions of years. Show how the data that you obtained either proves or disproves this concept. Explain in detail.
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