Difference between revisions of "September 4, 2007 - Cosmic Telescope"
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Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma (<math>\sqrt{138}= 11.7</math>) counts per hour. | Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma (<math>\sqrt{138}= 11.7</math>) counts per hour. | ||
| − | The cosmic ray telescope | + | 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] | [http://www.iac.isu.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Statistics_for_Experimenters See Statistics for Experimentalists] | ||
Revision as of 16:56, 5 September 2007
| Plateau Zeroing | |||||||
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| Time Start | Time Stop | Time elapsed (min.) | 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 | 225 | 626816 | 1654 | .2889 | 75 degrees |
| Time Start | Time Stop | Time elapsed (hour) | Singles Count (on top) | Coinc. Counts | Coinc. per hour | ||
| 1:20 pm | 2:20 pm | 1 | 5694 | 127 | 127 | 11.3 | 121 |
| 2:20 pm | 3:20 pm | 1 | 4896 | 136 | 136 | 11.6 | 4 |
| 3:20 pm | 4:20 pm | 1 | 4655 | 151 | 151 | 12.2 | 169 |
Mean = 138 counts per hour
Instrumental Uncertainty = counts per hour
Your instrumental uncertainty is approximately equal to the Poisson sigma () counts per hour.
The cosmic ray telescope counting experiment appears to be following Poisson statistics. See Statistics for Experimentalists