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Emeric, S. (1997). Dice shaking as an analogy for radioactive decay and first order kinematics. Journal of Chemical Education, 74, 505. doi:10.1021/ed074p505

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• TITLE: Radioactive Branching Using Dice

  AUTHORS: Sarmistha Sahu

  KEYWORDS: Radioactivity; Probability; Transition Rate; Half Life; Radioactive Branching

  JOURNAL NAME: Creative Education, Vol.3 No.5, September 27, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Dice rolling (Emeric,1997) is a useful pedagogical tool (Arthur & Ian,2012; Todd, Clifton, Ingrid, Zdravko,2006)) to introduce students to the concepts and essential features of radioactivity. It can be extended to explain radioactive branching. In the process, the students learn about half life, decay constant and activity of a radioactive substance. Terms like stochastic processes, probability of decay, statistical fluctuations, and mutually exclusive processes; becomes clear in this process.