Follow the steps of this "egg"speriment and discover how food and drink acids can lead to tooth decay and cavities. Created for teachers and parents, teach those you care for about the benefits of dental hygiene.

In this investigation, students make a simple model of how gasses can form from decaying material. They will also explore the effects of temperature on gas formation.

Learn what causes tooth decay and how to prevent it.

The tutorial investigates how to use exponential functions to solve word problems. Some topics explored are population and radioactive decay. The activity includes examples with detailed solutions.

Cavities are small holes in your teeth that need to be filled. Find out what causes tooth decay and how dentists handle it.

Astronomers use gamma decay to study the lives of the stars.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Study the basics of radioactive decay and the properties of atomic nuclei in Marie Curie's laboratory and classroom. A PDF worksheet and a video tutorial are also available. [3:32]

Details on ATLAS, one of the Large Hadron Collider experiments, and on the detection of Higgs decay.

A site containing problems using the conservation of charge to practice predicting the results of charge transfer and particle decay processes.

This site from the Jefferson Lab provides a glossary item with a good illustration.

Learn with these interactive exercises the concepts of growth and decay of a function and analyze the concepts with elementary functions.

Learn about radioactivity, the different types of radioactive decay, isotopes, and half-life of a radioactive element. Includes a long chart listing radioactive elements, atomic number and mass number, decay type, and length of half-life.

This CalculusQuest site provides a basic introduction to exponential functions, covering the laws of exponents and exponential growth and decay. At the bottom of the page are links to exponential equations, exercises, and the...

A set of exercises, complete with solutions, covering the basics of exponential functions, from the laws of exponents to exponential growth and decay.

An introduction to exponential functions, concentrating on models of exponential growth and decay.

Students will explore exponential equations that model real-world decay data.

Students will model exponential growth and model exponential decay. Students will make a visual choice of an appropriate model and then use the Transformation Graphing App to confirm their choice.

A page showing real life applications of natural logarithms in exponential grown and decay functions and Newton's law of cooling. Also includes exercises.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How scientists can use radioactive decay to find the age of certain materials.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The half-life of a radioisotope, rates of radioactive decay and variation in half-lives in different radioisotopes.

Students will find an explanation of the neutron particle located inside the atom's nucleus. Website also defines isotopes and the process of radioactive decay.

This lesson focuses on radioactive emissions including radioactive decay, half-life, using half-life, how to calculate net decline, a table showing how the count rate of an isotope might change over time, and a link to a test.

In this task, young scholars learn about exponential decay by examining the amount of Carbon-14 left in a preserved plant with the passage of time after the plant has died. This provides a simple introduction to Carbon-14 dating but the...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Elaborates on radioactive decay as a tool for determining the age of certain minerals and other materials, including the limits of the technique.