September 4, 2007 - Cosmic Telescope - Revision history

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 |<math>\sqrt{(x_i-\bar{x})^2}</math>
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-|1:20 pm || 2:20 pm ||1 ||5694 ||127 || 127 || 11.3 ||121
+|1:20 pm || 2:20 pm ||1 ||5694 ||127 || 127 || 11.3 ||11
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-|2:20 pm || 3:20 pm ||1 ||4896 ||136 || 136 || 11.6 ||4
+|2:20 pm || 3:20 pm ||1 ||4896 ||136 || 136 || 11.6 ||2
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-|3:20 pm || 4:20 pm ||1 ||4655 ||151 || 151 || 12.2 ||169
+|3:20 pm || 4:20 pm ||1 ||4655 ||151 || 151 || 12.2 ||13
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-! colspan="2"|Angular Distribution -75 Degrees
+! colspan="2"|Angular Distribution
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 |Time Start

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-! colspan="2"|Angular Distribution
+! colspan="2"|Angular Distribution -75 Degrees
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 |Time Start

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-! colspan="2"|Plateau Zeroing
+! colspan="2"|Angular Distribution
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 |Time Start

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 |Time Start
 |Time Stop
-|Time elapsed (min.)
+|Time elapsed (min.; hour)
 |Thresholds on both Scintillators
 |Singles Count (on top)
 |Coinc. Counts
 |Coinc. per minute
 |Angle measure
 |-
 |1:35 pm on 8/31
 |1:10 pm on 9/04
-|5725 min
+|5725 min; 95.42 hr
 |225
 |626816
 |1654
 |.2889
 |75 degrees
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 |Coinc. per hour
 |<math>\sqrt{N}</math>
-|<math>\sqrt{(x_i-\bar{x})}^2</math>
+|<math>\sqrt{(x_i-\bar{x})^2}</math>
 |-
 |1:20 pm || 2:20 pm ||1 ||5694 ||127 || 127 || 11.3 ||121

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 Instrumental Uncertainty =<math>\sigma = \sqrt{\frac{\sum (x_i - \bar{x})^2}{N-1}} = 12.12</math> counts per hour
-Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma (<math>\sqrt{138}= 11.7</math>) counts per hour.
+The instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma (<math>\sqrt{138}= 11.7</math>) counts per hour.
 The cosmic ray telescope counting experiment appears to be following Poisson statistics.
 [http://www.iac.isu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Statistics_for_Experimenters See Statistics for Experimentalists]

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-Cosmic rates measured each hour when telecope accepts cosmics which intesect the eartch surface perpendicularly (defined as zero degrees).
+Cosmic rates measured each hour when the telecope accepts cosmics which intersect the earth's surface perpendicularly (defined as zero degrees).
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