Recent content by kvidtr

Thank you all for the kind responses! As for the equipment, we were fairly limited in options as well as budget - we actually did this in a lab from a community college! So I'm just grateful for the fact that I had the opportunity at all, as I've been told by a good friend of mine that he...

[Mentor Note: The results post below has been merged back into the original thread about the project] TL;DR Summary: Bad news: Our SD Shield likely failed and it appears that we got no data. Good news: We learned a handful of practical takeaways. I asked for some help some weeks back...

Just sent out our balloon this last Wednesday. Will be working on a post with the fun stuff this week. Thanks again!

Thank you for your response! I understand (I think) the basic process of ionization leading to ticks, but is there a way to know the minimum amount of energy required to cause that ionization? I'm pretty sure the glass chamber in our Geiger counter is filled with air, which means it can sustain...

TL;DR Summary: Currently working on a project for lab where we're sending Geiger counters 100k feet into the air. Goal is to determine radiation as a function of altitude. Need some guidance. Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a project for lab where we're sending Geiger counters 100k feet...

Hi everyone! I stumbled across this forum looking for help on my first year physics homework about ~5 months ago and have been lurking ever since. I really appreciate the nature of these forums in that the answer to a problem is rarely (if ever) explicitly given, but instead people try to poke...