Thank you for the replies. I'm trying to obtain the technical specs. for the counter, which will allow me to know both the resolution and tube length, and then I will check your suggestions.
Another thing a friend suggested is that because the loss from inverse-square at this distance is very...
Homework Statement
The problem - confirm that the amount of radiation measured from a source is related by inverse-square to the distance.
Here is a graph of my data fitted to y = a1 * x^a2.
Every point is an average of 3-8 measurements (as many as needed to have a statistical error of...
Homework Statement
I am a freshman in physics, just done a lab about radioactive decay.
I've measured the # of beta particles per second 400 times and got the frequency of each number K using Excel.
I'm supposed to take the data and fit it to a puason distribution in MATlab.
The data points...