Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A question on radiation detection and count rate?

You are performing an experiment to determine the attenuation length of Cs-137 y-rays in steel, and for a certain thickness of steel absorber you observe a counting rate of 125 counts per second. For how long do you have to observe the counts, if you wish to determine the counting rate to a precision of 1%?

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