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These buttons will run the experiment:
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This animation tries to show why motion and direction can not be
determined without more than one scintillator tube. In this
experiment, an array of scintillator tubes is used and it is
important to understand why more than one tube is needed.
Seeing first one scintillator tube light up and then
another, shows particle movement in the direction tube 1
to tube 2.
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NOTE: The red and green colors seen on the detector do not mean anything. Repeat, do not worry about the two different colors on this experiment, they are only meant to be colorful.
The lab provides you with a circular particle detector made of
scintillator tubes. (Scintillator tubes are almost the
same as Geiger Counter tubes, but the scintillator tubes let you
time particle detections very precisely.)
You are given two timing scopes, one scope to record the time that the
upper tube was hit by a particle, and one scope to record the
time the lower tube was hit by the same particle. The times
are recorded in nanoseconds. The time difference recorded by the
scopes will help give you an idea of how fast these particles are
traveling.
Detects a single particle
Shows the particle's track
Continuously detects particles
Exits the program