[Virginia Tech Department of Physics]

Revised 01/09/2015

Physics 3324 Laboratory Equipment List

Lab 5: Radioactive Decay

Equipment List: 3 total setups

  1. Geiger tube mounted in cylindrical holder with shelves below them (careful, Geiger tube is easily damaged)
  2. Source set with four sealed radioactive sources:
    • Look in manual to figure out missing source
    • 137Cs
    • 90Sr
    • 204Tl
  3. Set of absorbers in wood box:
    • plastic
    • polyethylene
    • aluminum
    • lead
  4. Geiger tube control and counting unit (SPECTECH ST360 Counter)
  5. Stopwatch

General Lab use:

  1. Mini generator
  2. 137mBa

Notes and tests:

  1. Test.