Physics – Physics Education
Scientific paper
2011-11-17
Physics
Physics Education
8 pages, 1 table, presented in the International Scientific Conference eRA - 6, The Conference for the contribution of Informa
Scientific paper
Due to time and financial restrictions in an educational laboratory, we are making compromises, using experimental setups in which limitations and uncertainties are important. In these cases we should pay particular attention to the role of different factors that affect our experiment, in order to achieve the best possible educational outcome and to avoid misconceptions. In this paper problems related to the use of very low activity source 60Co in the experiment of measuring the linear attenuation coefficient of gamma rays through matter, will be presented. The role of background radiation in measurements and in the relative statistical uncertainty as well as the role of statistical uncertainty in the choice of representative measurements is discussed. Moreover students' difficulties and misconceptions related mainly to the statistical uncertainty and its connection to measurements overlapping are recorded. An explanation for the possible reasons of these misunderstandings is attempted in order to improve the educational outcome in this experiment.
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