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Wpi: Exponential Decay and Effective Medicine Dosage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is an example of the use of exponential decay. The example involves the effectiveness of a medical dosage over time.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Radioactive Decay Calculator

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use this online Radioactive Decay Calculator to compute radioactive decay, timed decay, and timed solid disposal for a databank containing 116 isotopes. This calculator also features University of British Columbia disposal...
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Minnesota Dental Association: Educational Activities: Sip All Day, Get Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Sip All Day, Get Decay is a comprehensive approach to eliminating tooth decay. Learn how you can stop the spread of cavities, gum disease and tooth decay simply by reducing the number of soft drinks you drink each day. Take the Soda Pop...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Find material to use when planning instruction on exponential growth and decay. A lesson offers several examples, graphs, and explanations, and there are two practice exercises and a group activity for testing and applying concepts learned.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: How Does Radioactive Decay Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the processes of radioactive decay in primary and secondary modes.
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Symmetry Magazine

Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Rare Particle Decays

For Students 9th - 10th
Rare particle decays, described here, are events that could lead to insights into the unknown processes of the universe. Scientists hope to learn more about them through research with particle accelerators. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Exponential Decay

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Developing exponential decay models with Algebra
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Exponential Decay

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson covers how to analyze and graph exponential decay functions.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Radioactive Decay 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This Algebra Cruncher generates an endless number of practice problems for radioactive decay -- with solutions! Find how much will be left after a given amount of time.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Radioactive Decay 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This Algebra Cruncher generates an endless number of practice problems for radioactive decay -- with hints and solutions! Find the half-life.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Radioactive Decay 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This Algebra Cruncher generates an endless number of practice problems for radioactive decay -- with hints and solutions!
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Boise State University

Boise State: Nuclear Chemistry and Radiation: Types of Radioactive Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
This article with embedded videos provides information about three main types of radioactive decay: alpha, beta, and gamma.
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Concord Consortium

Mobile Inquiry Technology: Decaying Batteries

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This investigation has students investigating and measuring the decay of batteries as their electric charges are used up in circuits.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra Ii: 3.11 Modeling With Exponential Decay and Log Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson continues exploring the process for modeling real world scenarios by writing and solving exponential and logarithmic functions. It also covers how to create and interpret graphs of such functions.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Radioactive Decay

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will use a mathematical model to study the process of radioactive decay in order to help understand how it can be used to determine the age of ancient earth materials.
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Math Medics

S.o.s. Math: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions /Radioactive Decay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A set of examples and exercises that show how to solve radioactive decay problems by using exponents and logarithms.
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Wpi: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site explains exponential growth and decay and how it applies to the real world with its use in bacterial populations.
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Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Decay Constant and Half Life From Table

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine the decay constant and half-life of an isotope based on the activity data of the isotope as a function of time.
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Saylor Academy: Exponential Growth and Decay: Differential Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
A textbook chapter on exponential growth and decay.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Technetium Decay and Its Cardiac Application

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a passage about technetium decay and its cardiac application and answer the follow-up questions.
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University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

University of Saskatchewan: Modeling Exponential Decay Using Logarithms

For Students 9th - 10th
Radioactive decay is a real-life example of exponential decay. This site solves an example problem by using the exponential decay equation.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Gamma Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the process of gamma decay is provided.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Exponential Decay and Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
Eleven problems present a variety of problems working with various aspects of exponential decay and growth. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click...
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Exponential Decay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
MathWorld provides the equation for exponential decay and an explanation of the variables of the equation.

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