P4 L5 Half Life
Channel: Science with Quinn
Date: 2020-04-02

Calculate the half life of a radioisotope

1 – describe the nature or radioactive decay
2 – plot a half life graph
3 – calculate half life 


Frederick Soddy
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1921/soddy/biographical/

Rutherford, transmutation and the proton
https://cerncourier.com/a/rutherford-transmutation-and-the-proton/ 

Attempts at Artificial Gold
https://www.jstor.org/stable/7193?seq=1

Hantaro Nagaoka
https://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-mystery-of-nagaokas-1920s-gold-experiments-why-did-work-stop-by-1930-dec-27-2013

Half Life coins
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/half-life-coins/

Half life graph example
http://www.physicsinfo.co.uk/?page=view&id=2564

The Physics Aviary
https://www.thephysicsaviary.com/Physics/APPrograms/HalfLifeFromGraph/
https://www.thephysicsaviary.com/Physics/Programs/Games/find.php