PHYS-1207EL Study Guide - Final Guide: Radiative Transfer, Cobalt-60, Radiation Protection
31 Jan 2021
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The purpose of this experiment is to introduce the concept of radiation transport in biological tissue, a concept which has fundamental applications in modern radiotherapy as well as in the practice radiation protection. A second objective is to familiarize the student with the geiger mueller counter, a widely used pulse- counting instrument. The student will use the gm tube to determine the absorption coefficient of water and biological tissue. Procedure: procedure is listed in experiment #11 of the first year physics lab manual. pg. Place a copy of your signed original data sheet created during the lab in the following pages. Place the table of results that you created in excel or by hand in the following pages. pg. Possible sources of errors for this experiment are: The samples could have not been fully covering the 60co source. The 60co source could have had a little bit of tape covering it.
