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- Homework Statement
- I have a list of counts that are taken from a Geiger Counter based off only one trial. There were 20 runs taken with different voltages. The voltage ranged from 500 to 1000 and the counts ranged from 20,000 to 100,000.
- Relevant Equations
- Let c be counts therefore uncertainty is ##\sqrt{c}##.
From what I understand thus far is the counting involves Poisson therefore the uncertainty is just the square root of the counts, correct? But when I take the square root of the counts it produces a very small number compared to the count which makes it insignificant therefore the error bars that I want to produce aren't visible because the uncertainty is so small. Am I correct in using Poisson to measure the uncertainty? There was only one trial done.