Right, I know that it's not actually the tritium glowing. And strangely enough that is the same experiment that I am doing in the lab. I did some tests today with some glow in the dark paints that have a similar color and output power of a low end tritium bulb. I managed to get about 2...
How bright could you possibly get a radioluminescent material to glow? Let's use tritium as the radionuclide. How would you mathematically calculate the brightness? What is the best radionuclide and phosphor to use? Obviously it has to be a β-emitter. Would it depend mainly on the β energy...
Today I decided to tone down the power of the gun. It will be simply a little air gun. Still with an ok velocity, but not to much force. And since it decelerates so fast it will not go fast for too long.
Trust me, safety is the most important part of this, It will be fired inside of a closed chamber(already made), and won't be firing at anything that can shatter. The projectiles will only be fired at about a 3 foot range. So deceleration is not a huge worry but we will take it into...
Radar gun sounds like something I need to research. Like you advised, I could easily use the kinematics to figure it out, but I would need to know at least two variables. Probably time and displacement. I suppose I could measure that at long ranges. Or possibly with a camera like you said.
I believe the best way to solve a problem like this is to do it yourself. But, i will tell you what you need to know. Since the velocity is a vector. This is a vector addition problem that requires the use of the kinematic equations to solve. The kinematic equation I would use is
x=1/2at^2+vt...
Great! I will certainly continue this project then. My teacher gave me permission to use the lab at school. So I will have a good place to work.
Does anyone have any idea how to measure the velocity of this? It occurred to me that it will be relatively hard to measure something so small going...
Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I am a high school student but I am extremely interested in science and I like to call myself a "junior physicist". even though I am not nearly as smart as a real one. But I suppose I am working my way up there. I am hoping to go to college and get a degree...