Muon Half-life  

Measurement with CHICOS Particle Detectors

1.  Introduction to Radioactive Decay and Half-Life:  14C Dating

2.  Twizzler Graph Activity

3.  Half-life and how to measure it

4.  What is a muon?


5.  Measure the muon half-life!
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Developed by
Bob Gates, Jim Hill,
Theresa Lynn, Bob McKeown, Rudy Resch, Anne Sullivan, Trung Tran

California HIgh school Cosmic ray ObServatory (CHICOS)
2006

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